Under the direction of Steve Suissa, she seduces Stephane Freiss and Titoff in The Grand Role (2004), and a comedy about the world of actors, and Cavalcade (2005), a drama dealing with the theme of disability.

In 2006, she made a comeback by acting alongside Jean Dujardin in OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies by Michel Hazanavicius, this is the first collaboration of the trio.[5]

In 2007, she made an appearance in the short film La Pomme d'Adam.

In 2008, she appeared in two romantic comedies: Modern Love Bouquet and Stéphane Kazandjian, the same year she gave birth to her first child by Hazanavicius.

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Buenos Aires
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Buenos Aires is the capital and most populous city of Argentina. The city is located on the shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata. The city of Buenos Aires is neither part of Buenos Aires Province nor the Provinces capital, rather, in 1880, after decades of political infighting, Buenos Aires was federalized and removed from Buenos Aires Province. The city limits were enlarged to include the towns of Belgrano and Flores, the 1994 constitutional amendment granted the city autonomy, hence its formal name, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires. Its citizens first elected a chief of government in 1996, previously, Buenos Aires is considered an alpha city by the study GaWC5. Buenos Aires quality of life was ranked 81st in the world and one of the best in Latin America in 2012 and it is the most visited city in South America, and the second-most visited city of Latin America. Buenos Aires is a top tourist destination, and is known for its preserved Spanish/European-style architecture, Buenos Aires held the 1st Pan American Games in 1951 as well as hosting two venues in the 1978 FIFA World Cup. Buenos Aires will host the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2018 G20 summit, Buenos Aires is a multicultural city, being home to multiple ethnic and religious groups. Several languages are spoken in the city in addition to Spanish, contributing to its culture, the hill was known to them as Buen Ayre, as it was free of the foul smell prevalent in the old city, which is adjacent to swampland. During the siege of Cagliari, the Aragonese built a sanctuary to the Virgin Mary on top of the hill, in 1335, King Alfonso the Gentle donated the church to the Mercedarians, who built an abbey that stands to this day. In the years after that, a story circulated, claiming that a statue of the Virgin Mary was retrieved from the sea after it miraculously helped to calm a storm in the Mediterranean Sea, the statue was placed in the abbey. Spanish sailors, especially Andalusians, venerated this image and frequently invoked the Fair Winds to aid them in their navigation, a sanctuary to the Virgin of Buen Ayre would be later erected in Seville. Pedro de Mendoza called the city Holy Mary of the Fair Winds, mendoza’s settlement soon came under attack by indigenous people, and was abandoned in 1541. For many years, the name was attributed to a Sancho del Campo, a second settlement was established in 1580 by Juan de Garay, who sailed down the Paraná River from Asunción. Garay preserved the name chosen by Mendoza, calling the city Ciudad de la Santísima Trinidad y Puerto de Santa María del Buen Aire. The short form Buenos Aires became the common usage during the 17th century, the usual abbreviation for Buenos Aires in Spanish is Bs. As. It is common as well to refer to it as B. A. or BA /ˌbiːˈeɪ/ bee-AY), while BA is used more by expats residing in the city, the locals more often use the abbreviation Baires, in one word. Seaman Juan Díaz de Solís, navigating in the name of Spain, was the first European to reach the Río de la Plata in 1516 and his expedition was cut short when he was killed during an attack by the native Charrúa tribe in what is now Uruguay

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Michel Hazanavicius
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Michel Hazanavicius is a French film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor best known for his 2011 film, The Artist, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 84th Academy Awards. It also won him the Academy Award for Best Director and he also directed spy film parodies OSS117, Cairo, Nest of Spies and OSS117, Lost in Rio. His family is Jewish, and originally from Lithuania and his grandparents settled in France in the 1920s. Before directing films, Hazanavicius worked in television, beginning with the Canal+ channel and he began directing commercials for companies such as Reebok and Bouygues Telecom, and then, in 1993, he made his first feature-length film, La Classe américaine, for television. The film, co-directed with Dominique Mézerette, consisted entirely of footage taken from films produced by the Warner Bros. studio. In 1997, Hazanavicius directed his first short film, Echec au capital, and followed it up with his first theatrically released feature, Mes amis, the $17.5 million film was a modest box office success, with $23 million worldwide receipts. A sequel, OSS117, Lost in Rio, followed in 2009, both films were later distributed in the United States by Music Box Films. The Artist, a black and white film without dialogue which takes place in Hollywood on the eve of sound film, the Artist was later released to universal acclaim. On 24 January 2012 Hazanavicius received nominations for three Oscars, the Academy Awards for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best Film Editing, Hazanavicius said winning an Oscar would be like dreaming of going to the moon – you dont really believe it could ever happen. Hazanavicius won the Academy Award for Best Director for The Artist and he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. He contributed a section to the omnibus film The Players starring Jean Dujardin and he has announced that his next feature film will be a remake of the 1948 Fred Zinnemann film The Search. The film will star Berenice Bejo in the Montgomery Clift role as an NGO worker helping a little boy find his family in modern-day Chechnya, golden Globe Award actress winner Annette Bening will star in the film. Hazanavicius was in a relationship with film director Virginia Lovisone, and he is married to Bérénice Bejo, who acted in his films OSS117, Cairo, Nest of Spies, The Artist and The Search. Hazanavicius and Bejo have two children together, Lucien and Gloria, list of accolades received by The Artist Michel Hazanavicius at the Internet Movie Database Michel Hazanavicius at WN

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French Argentine
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French Argentines refers to Argentine citizens of full or partial French ancestry, or persons born in France who reside in Argentina. French Argentines form the third largest ancestry group after Italian Argentines, between 1857 and 1946,261,020 French people immigrated to Argentina. Today more than 6 million Argentines have some degree of French ancestry, while Argentines of French descent make up a substantial percent of the Argentine population, they are less visible than other similarly-sized ethnic groups. This is due to the degree of assimilation and the lack of substantial French colonies throughout the country. During the first half of the 19th century, most of French immigrants to the New World settled in the United States and in Uruguay. While the United States received 195,971 French immigrants between 1820 and 1855, only 13,922 Frenchmen, most of them from the Basque Country and Béarn, left for Uruguay between 1833 and 1842. After the fall of Rosas in 1852, Argentina overtook Uruguay, from the second half of the 19th century to the first half of the 20th century, Argentina received the second largest group of French immigrants worldwide, second only to the United States. Between 1857 and 1946 Argentina received 239,503 French immigrants - out of which 105,537 permanently settled in the country, in 1976116,032 were settled in Argentina. French immigration to Argentina can be divided in three periods, France was the third source of immigration to Argentina before 1890, constituting over 10% of immigrants, only surpassed by Italians and Spaniards. From 1890 to 1914, immigration from France, although reduced, after WWI, the flow of French immigrants was minimal and only grew after WWII to finally stop in the 1950s. In 1810, Buenos Aires had a population of 28,528 inhabitants, at the beginning of the 19th century, French immigration to Argentina was not substantial. Mainly constituted of political exiles and former officers from the army, it became more considerable from the year 1825, reaching up to 1. In 1839, it was estimated that 4,000 Frenchmen were living in the province of Buenos Aires, from the next decade, French people started to migrate to Argentina in large numbers. During the first period, French immigration was similar, in numbers and in features, to that of Italians and it belongs to a larger movement of emigration of Basque people, from both sides of the Pyrenees. Until 1852, most of French immigrants to the Río de la Plata were settling in Uruguay, French formed the largest group of immigrants to Argentina until 1854. The country received 1,484 French immigrants in 1856, Frenchmen still were the second most important immigrant group after Italians, the number of French immigrants present in the Buenos Aires Province reached 25,000 in 1859. In 1869, at the time of the first national census,32,383 Frenchmen lived in the country, immigration from France increased dramatically in the first half of the 1870s and in the second half of the 1890s. In 1887, there were 20,031 Frenchmen living in Buenos Aires,4. 6% of the 433,421 inhabitants

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The Artist (film)
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The Artist received highly positive reviews from critics and won many accolades. Dujardin won the Best Actor Award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and it was also the first French film to win Best Picture, and the first mainly silent film to win since 1927s Wings won at the 1st Academy Awards in 1929. It was also the first film presented in the 4,3 aspect ratio to win since 1953s From Here to Eternity, in France it was nominated for ten César Awards, winning six, including Best Film, Best Director for Hazanavicius and Best Actress for Bejo. The Artist has received more awards than any other French film, in 1927, silent film star George Valentin is posing for pictures outside the premiere of his latest hit film when a young woman, Peppy Miller, accidentally bumps into him. Valentin reacts with humor to the accident and shows off with Peppy for the cameras, the next day, Peppy finds herself on the front page of Variety with the headline Whos That Girl. Later, Peppy auditions as a dancer and is spotted by Valentin, while performing a scene in which they dance together, Valentin and Peppy show great chemistry, despite her being merely an extra. With a little guidance from Valentin, Peppy slowly rises through the industry, two years later, Zimmer announces the end of production of silent films at Kinograph Studios, but Valentin is dismissive, insisting that sound is just a fad. In a dream, Valentin begins hearing sounds from his environment and he decides to produce and direct his own silent film, financing it himself. The film opens on the day as Peppys new sound film as well as the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Now Valentins only chance of avoiding bankruptcy is for his film to be a hit, unfortunately audiences flock to Peppys film instead and Valentin is ruined. His wife, Doris, kicks him out, and he moves into an apartment with his valet/chauffeur, Clifton, Peppy goes on to become a major Hollywood star. Depressed and drunk, Valentin angrily sets a match to his collection of his earlier films. As the nitrate film quickly blazes out of control he is overwhelmed by the smoke and passes out inside the burning house, however, Valentins dog attracts the help of a nearby policeman, and after being rescued Valentin is hospitalized for injuries suffered in the fire. Peppy visits the hospital and discovers that the film he rescued is the one with them dancing together and she asks for him to be moved to her house to recuperate. Valentin awakens in a bed at her house, to find that Clifton is now working for Peppy, Valentin seems to remain dismissive of Peppy having taken him in, prompting Clifton to sternly remind Valentin of his changing luck. Peppy insists to Zimmer that Valentin co-star in her next film, after Valentin learns to his dismay that it had been Peppy who had purchased all his auctioned effects, he returns in despair to his burnt-out apartment. Peppy arrives, panicked, and finds that Valentin is about to attempt suicide with a handgun, Peppy tells him she only wanted to help him. They embrace and Valentin tells her its no use, no one wants to him speak

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database

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Best Actress Award (Cannes Film Festival)
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The Best Actress Award is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival. It is chosen by the jury from the films in competition at the festival. It was first awarded in 1946, the ceremony was cancelled in 1948,1950, and 1968. No awards were given to actresses in 1947, on four occasions, the jury has awarded multiple women the prize from one film. The four films were A World Apart, Brink of Life, A Big Family, the jury also on occasion cites actresses with a special citation that is separate from the main award. From 1979 to 1981 the festival awarded a Best Supporting Actress prize. Isabelle Adjani is the actress to ever win the award for two films in one festival, which she did in 1981. The award can be for lead or supporting roles, barbara Hershey won the award consecutively in 1987 and 1988. ‡ - indicates the performance was nominated for an Academy Award 2 wins Vanessa Redgrave – Morgan

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The Past (film)
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The Past is a 2013 French–Italian–Iranian drama film, written and directed by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi and starring Bérénice Bejo, Tahar Rahim and Ali Mosaffa. The film was nominated for the Palme dOr award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, Bejo also won the festivals Best Actress Award. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, the film was selected as the Iranian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Golden Globe Awards, Ahmad, an Iranian man, returns to France after four years to finalise his divorce with his wife Marie. On the way to her home, he learns that she has begun a relationship with Samir, at Maries request, he speaks to her daughter from a previous marriage, Lucie, regarding her recent troubled behavior. Lucie disapproves of Maries new relationship, Ahmad and Marie attend court to complete their divorce. Just before the meeting with the officials, she tells him that she is pregnant with Samirs child, Ahmad continues to counsel Lucie, hoping to reconcile her to the situation. She reveals that Samir is still married and his wife is in coma after an attempt, caused by the revelation that Samir. Samir tells Ahmad that his wife suffered from depression and the attempt was in fact caused by an incident with a customer in his shop. His wife was unaware of his affair and he arranges for Naïma, his employee, Lucie disappears and Ahmad and Samir search for her. Ahmad finds Lucie, who has been staying with a friend, Lucie does so and Marie becomes enraged, telling Lucie to leave. Ahmad calms the situation and Lucie returns, after questioning what feelings he may still hold for his wife, Marie tells Samir what Lucie did. Samir finds this hard to accept and questions Naïma about the leading up his wifes suicide attempt. Naïma states his wife wasnt even in the shop the day that Lucie said she called, after Marie accuses Lucie of lying, Lucie maintains her version of events saying that she spoke to a woman with an accent on the phone. Samir realizes that she spoke to Naïma, who then gave Lucie his wifes email address. However, Naïma believes that his wife never read the emails, because she came into the shop and chose to drink bleach in front of her, Samir and Marie discuss the events and their relationship. Marie decides that they should focus on their future, while Samir appears conflicted, Ahmad prepares to return to Iran. He says farewell to the children and attempts to talk to Marie about the end of their marriage, meanwhile, Samir visits his wife in hospital with a selection of perfumes, which the doctors have recommended in order to possibly initiate a response

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National Reorganization Process
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The National Reorganization Process was the name used by its leaders for the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In Argentina it is known simply as la última junta militar or la última dictadura. The Argentine military seized power during the March 1976 coup. The junta continued the Dirty War, after losing the Falklands War to the United Kingdom in 1982, the junta faced mounting public opposition and finally relinquished power in 1983. The military has always been influential in Argentine politics, and Argentine history is laced with frequent. The popular Argentine leader, Juan Perón, three-time President of Argentina, was a colonel in the army who first came to power in the aftermath of a 1943 military coup. He advocated a new policy dubbed Justicialism, a nationalist policy which he claimed was a third way, after being re-elected to the office of president by popular vote, Perón was deposed and exiled by the Revolución Libertadora in 1955. His return was marked by the June 20,1973 Ezeiza massacre, peron was democratically elected President in 1973, but died in July 1974. His vice president and third wife, Isabel Martínez de Perón, succeeded him, the situation escalated until Mrs. Perón was overthrown. She was replaced on March 24,1976 by a junta led by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla. Many cases were never reported, when families were disappeared. Among the disappeared were pregnant women, who were alive until giving birth under often primitive circumstances in the secret prisons. The infants were generally adopted by military or political families affiliated with the administration. Thousands of detainees were drugged, loaded aircraft, stripped naked. The film The Official Story, which won the Oscar for the Best Foreign Film category in 1985, the Argentine secret service SIDE also cooperated with the DINA in Pinochets Chile and other South American intelligence agencies. The United States supported endeavours to eradicate left-leaning politics on the continent and it is estimated to have caused the deaths of more than 60.000 people. SIDE also trained – for example in the Honduran Lepaterique base – the Nicaraguan Contras who were fighting the Sandinista government there, the regime shut down the legislature and restricted both freedom of the press and freedom of speech, adopting severe media censorship. The 1978 World Cup, which Argentina hosted and won, was used as a means of propaganda and to rally its people under a nationalist pretense

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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies
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OSS117, Cairo, Nest of Spies released in France as OSS117, Le Caire, nid despions, is a 2006 French spy comedy film directed and co-written by Michel Hazanavicius in his feature film debut. It stars Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo, and Aure Atika, a sequel, OSS117, Lost in Rio, also directed by Hazanavicius and starring Dujardin, was released in 2009. The main plot starts with the disappearances of an OSS agent, Jack Jefferson, agent OSS117 is sent to investigate the events, since he and agent Jefferson share a history, shown in a short opening sequence and in flashbacks throughout the film. Throughout the film the character has two main romantic interests. The first is an Egyptian princess Al Tarouk, who cant resist the charms of OSS117, Hubert has woken up, having beaten up the muezzin during the night as he couldnt sleep with the noise. Hubert, By the way, I was woken by a guy screaming on a tower, yours is a very strange religion. At a Suez Canal panoramic view point Hubert, Its breathtaking, to build this 4000 years ago was visionary. Larmina, The Suez Canal was built 86 years ago, the scene at the Cairo airport was filmed in the entrance hall of a campus of Panthéon-Assas University. The main character in the OSS117 series is an agent of the Office of Strategic Services, Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath. The character is played by French actor Jean Dujardin, and he is supported in the film by Bérénice Bejo and it was relatively successful at the box office in France, with an attendance figure of over 2 million. Due to the performance, a 2009 sequel has been made titled OSS117. Critics outside France gave the positive to average reviews. Metacritic reported the film had a score of 62 out of 100

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Lady-in-waiting
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A lady-in-waiting or Court Lady is a female personal assistant at a court, royal or feudal, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman from a family in good society, although she may or may not have received compensation for the service she rendered, a lady-in-waiting was considered more of a companion to her mistress than a servant. In courts where polygamy was practiced, a lady was formally available to the monarch for sexual services. Lady-in-waiting or court lady is often a term for women whose relative rank, title. The development of the office of lady-in-waiting in Europe is connected to that of the development of a royal court, in the late 12th-century, the queens of France are confirmed to have had their own household, and noblewomen are mentioned as ladies-in-waiting. A number of tribes and cultural areas in the African continent, within certain traditional states of the Bini and Yoruba peoples in Nigeria, the queen mothers and high priestesses were considered ritually male due to their social eminence. Due to this fact, they were often attended on by women who belonged to their harems in much the way as their actually male counterparts were served by women who belonged to theirs. This resulted in a mix of Burgundian and Spanish customs when the Austrian court model was created, the first rank of the female courtiers was the Obersthofmeisterin, who was second in rank after the empress herself, and responsible for all the female courtiers. Second rank belonged to the ayas, essentially governesses of the imperial children, the rest of the female noble courtiers consisted of the Hoffräulein, unmarried females from the nobility who normally served temporarily until marriage. The Hoffräulein could sometimes be promoted to Kammerfräulein, the Austrian court model was the role model for the princely courts in Germany. The German court model in turn became the model of the early modern Scandinavian courts of Denmark. The Kingdom of Belgium was founded in 1830, after which a court was founded. The ladies-in waiting have historically been chosen by the Queen herself from among the Catholic noble houses of Belgium, the chief functions at court were undertaken by members of the higher nobility, involving much contact with the royal ladies. Belgian princesses were assigned a lady upon their 18th birthday, princess Clementine was given a Dame by her father, a symbolic act of adulthood. When the Queen entertains, the ladies welcome guests and assist the hostess in sustaining conversation and this system has formally remained roughly the same. However, in practice, many offices have since then left vacant. For example, in recent times, Maids of Honour have only appointed for coronations. The duties of ladies-in-waiting at the Tudor court were to act as royal companions, Tudor queens often had wide personal latitude in selection of their ladies-in-waiting

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Shannyn Sossamon
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Shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon /ˈsɒsəmən/, popularly known as Shannyn Sossamon, is an American actress and musician. After graduating from school in 1995, she moved to Los Angeles to study dance, instead. Her first movie role was in A Knights Tale, a vehicle that brought her mainstream attention and it was followed by appearances in comedies such as 40 Days and 40 Nights and The Rules of Attraction. She did further work in the features The Order, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. She received wide acclaim for her performance in Wristcutters, A Love Story, and had a starring part on the CBS supernatural drama, Moonlight. She subsequently headlined the horror remake One Missed Call, which earned her a Teen Choice Award nomination. She has focused on projects, appearing in a number of independent films, including Life Is Hot in Cracktown, Road to Nowhere, The Day. She has recently done several television appearances as well, as in the first season of ABCs drama Mistresses and she played the character of Pandora in season three of FOXs Sleepy Hollow. As a musician, she provided vocals and drums to Warpaint from 2004 to 2008, Sossamons sole recording with the band is the 2009 EP, Exquisite Corpse. Sossamon has directed and produced short and musical videos, released through Maudegone Theater, shannon Marie Kahololani Sossamon was born on October 3,1978 in Honolulu, Hawaii, and was raised in Reno, Nevada. She is the daughter of Sherry Sossamon, a nurse, and she has a younger sister, singer Jenny Lee Lindberg, who was born in 1981. Her parents divorced when she was five, and Sossamon and her sister were raised by her mother, who married Randy Goldman. Her maternal grandmother is of Hawaiian and Filipino descent, while the rest of her ancestry is English, German, Dutch, French, Sossamon attended Galena High School in Reno, graduating in 1995. The day after her school graduation, she relocated in Los Angeles with two friends, to study dance. Nothing compares to that feeling when you first leave home and arrive somewhere new, when we woke up in the morning, just making coffee felt amazing. It felt like being so free – just to wake up and make coffee, the y in her first name was an adolescent alteration in 1995. After moving to Los Angeles in 1995, she began to work as a DJ, booking gigs in local clubs and performance venues. While Sossamon was pursuing a career in dance, she never planned to become a professional dancer, recalling

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Jean Dujardin
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Jean Dujardin is a French actor, television director and comedian. He began his career as a comedian in Paris before starting his acting career guest-starring in comedic television programs and films. Dujardin garnered international fame and widespread acclaim with his performance of George Valentin in the 2011 award-winning silent movie The Artist and he became the first French actor in history to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. He later appeared in Martin Scorseses 2013 black comedy The Wolf of Wall Street and George Clooneys 2014 historical drama, Jean Dujardin was born on 19 June 1972 and raised in Rueil-Malmaison, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France. After attending high school, he went to work for the company of his father. Dujardin began contemplating a career in acting while serving his military service a few years later. Dujardin began his career performing a one-man show he wrote in various bars. He first gained attention when he appeared on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous Ç Nous, the TV series charted the path of a relationship, each episode was less than ten minutes long. In 2005, he portrayed the titular surfer in the comedic film Brice de Nice. The films success spawned a sequel, OSS117, Lost in Rio, in 2007, directed by Jan Kounen, he starred in the film 99F, a very successful existential parody of an advertising exec, adapted from the eponymous best-seller written by Frédéric Beigbeder. This same year, he ventured in drama for the first time on the screen, playing a tortured father. In 2009, he appeared in A Man and His Dog alongside screen legend Jean-Paul Belmondo, in 2010, he starred alongside Albert Dupontel, playing his characters cancer in The Clink of Ice, a French black comedy written and directed by Bertrand Blier. The film premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, where he received the Best Actor Award and his performance garnered much critical acclaim and he received numerous nominations, including the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor and the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor. On 15 January 2012, Dujardin won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and he later went on to win the Screen Actors Guild for Best Actor, and the BAFTA for Best Actor. He was also nominated for the César award of the best actor, Dujardin went on to win the Best Actor award at the 84th Academy Awards. In effect he is the fourth French actor to be nominated for an Oscar and he has been described as Frances answer to George Clooney. Following his Oscar nomination for his role in The Artist, WME agency signed the actor, Dujardins breakthrough roles as Brice de Nice and OSS117 exemplified this tendency. In February 2012, Dujardin appeared in Les Infidèles with co-star and he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals

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Bruno Nuytten
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Bruno Nuytten is a French cinematographer turned director. Camille Claudel which was Nuyttens first directorial and screenwriting effort, won the César Award for Best film in 1989, the film starred and was co-produced by Isabelle Adjani, with whom he had a son, Barnabé Saïd-Nuytten. Adjani won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 39th Berlin International Film Festival for her role in the film and his sophomore directorial effort, Albert Souffre, though also a heavily emotional movie, was set in contemporary times. His 2000 film, Passionnément, starred Charlotte Gainsbourg and he won the César Award for Best Cinematography in 1977 and 1984, and was nominated in 1980,1982,1985 and 1987. He is currently a professor at Frances national film school La Fémis

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Marie-France Pisier
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Marie-France Pisier was a French actress, screenwriter, and director. She appeared in films of the French New Wave and twice earned the national César Award for Best Supporting Actress. Pisier was born in Dalat, French Indochina, where her father was serving as governor of French Indochina. Her younger brother, Gilles Pisier, is a mathematician and a member of the French Academy of Sciences and her sister, Evelyne, was the first wife of Bernard Kouchner, a French politician and the co-founder of Médecins Sans Frontières. The family moved to Paris when Marie-France was twelve years old, five years later, she made her screen acting debut for director François Truffaut in his 1962 film, Antoine and Colette. Pisier had a brief but incendiary romance with the older, married Truffaut, despite its end, she later appeared in Truffauts Stolen Kisses and Love on the Run. Love on the Run was the fifth and final film in Truffauts series about the character Antoine Doinel, in a review in The New York Times, film critic Vincent Canby praised her for a ravishing performance. Pisier later collaborated on the screenplay to Jacques Rivettes Celine and Julie Go Boating, later in the same year she had a role in Luis Buñuel’s Phantom of Liberty. She gained widespread recognition in 1975 when she appeared in Jean-Charles Tacchellas popular comedy. Her role as the volatile Karine earned her a César Award for Best Supporting Actress, Pisier attempted to crack the American film industry with The Other Side of Midnight, adapted from a Sidney Sheldon novel. She appeared on American television in the miniseries The French Atlantic Affair and she made two more Hollywood films, French Postcards with Debra Winger and Chanel Solitaire with Timothy Dalton. Returning to France, Pisier made her debut with The Governors Party. She also played Madame Verdurin in Raúl Ruizs adaptation of Marcel Proust and her final film as director was with Bérénice Bejo in Like An Airplane. Pisiers first marriage to Georges Kiejman ended in divorce and she resided in Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, Var, and was married to Thierry Funck-Brentano. The couple had a son, Mathieu, and a daughter, the 66-year-old actress died on 24 April 2011. She was found dead in her swimming pool by Funck-Brentano and is believed to have drowned and she is survived by her sister Évelyne, brother Gilles, and both children. The local mayor announced her death to the media and President Nicolas Sarkozy made a public statement honouring “her supreme elegance born of the most perfect simplicity. Marie-France Pisier at the Internet Movie Database Marie-France Pisier at AllMovie

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Santa Barbara International Film Festival
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The Santa Barbara International Film Festival is an eleven-day film festival held in Santa Barbara, California since 1986. In 2014, the festival screened over 200 films, including films and short films, from different countries. Besides screenings, the festival also contains different sections, including celebrity tributes, industry panels, though founded in 1986, the festival has developed and changed over years. When the present executive director, Roger Durling, first took over in 2002 and it was believed that he noticed the Sundance Effect which refers to the popularity of Sundance Film Festival taken place in January. He then decided to move the festival to late January and it was believed that Santa Barbara International Film Festival tries to shines a light on independent and ethnic film-makers. In the past, Roger Durling saved a third of his festivals slots to films by Hispanic filmmakers in order to better represent Latino population in the area, Durling also decided to add nature films. Now between you and me, I fall asleep at nature films, he said, but hey — they draw a huge crowd. Later, he decided to bring in surf flicks and adventure-sports film that would attract young college students, Film festivals have a tradition of being for the elite, but they shouldnt be, Durling said. It should be like a candy store, anyone should be able to walk in and grab whatever they want. In the past, the festival has honored numerous independent filmmakers, organizers of the festival have pointed out that some of their honorees were not the most popular stars, however, they all contributed to the industry at a great level. Ten writers are selected to write one 10-minute script each, the scripts are then matched with the ten filmmakers and those students then have ten days to shoot and edit the completed ten-minute short film, during the ten days of the festival. Films are screened and winners are announced on closing night, a selection committee consisting of representatives from each school, Industry professionals and SBIFF representatives select the participants. SBIFF Website Santa Barbara Film Commission IMDb SBIFF page Santa Barbara International Film Festival - A Photoessay by Scott London

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Santa Barbara International Film Festival

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Asghar Farhadi
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Asghar Farhadi is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. Among other awards, he has received a Golden Globe Award as well as two Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for his movies A Separation and The Salesman in 2012 and 2017, respectively. He was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in the world by Time magazine in 2012, Farhadi was born in Khomeyni Shahr, a city located in the Isfahan province near the city of Isfahan. He is a graduate of theatre, with a BA in Dramatic Arts and MA in Stage Direction from University of Tehran and Tarbiat Modares University, respectively. Farhadi made short 8mm and 16mm films in the Isfahan branch of the Iranian Young Cinema Society and he also directed such TV series as A Tale of a City and co-wrote the screenplay for Ebrahim Hatamikia’s Low Heights. Dancing in the Dust was his film debut, which he followed with A Beautiful City. His third film, Fireworks Wednesday, won the Gold Hugo at the 2006 Chicago International Film Festival and his fourth film, About Elly, won him the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 59th International Berlin Film Festival and also Best Picture at the Tribeca Film Festival. The latter film is about a group of Iranians who take a trip to the Iranian beaches of Caspian Sea that turns tragic, Film theorist and critic David Bordwell has called About Elly a masterpiece. His film A Separation premiered on 9 February 2011 at the 29th Fajr International Film Festival in Tehran and it won Farhadi four awards including Best Director. On 15 February 2011, it played in competition at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. In June 2011, A Separation won the Sydney Film Prize in competition with Cannes Festivals winner The Tree of Life, on 19 December 2011, Farhadi was announced as being on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 2012. On 15 January 2012, A Separation won the Golden Globe for the Best Foreign Language Film, on 26 February 2012, A Separation became the first Iranian movie to win an Oscar for the best foreign language film at the 84th edition of the Academy Awards. This marked Farhadi as the first Iranian to have won an Academy Award in any of the competitive categories and he was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in June 2012 along with 175 other individuals. A Separation also won the César Award for Best Foreign Film and his 2013 film The Past, starring Bérénice Bejo and Tahar Rahim, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Bejo won the Best Actress Award at Cannes for her performance in the film and his 2016 film The Salesman, starring Shahab Hosseini and Taraneh Alidoosti, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The Salesman won two Awards, Best Actor for Shahab Hosseini and Best Screenplay for Farhadi, on 26 February 2017, he won his second Oscar for Best Foreign Film for The Salesman at the 89th Academy Awards. The Salesman had already won the award for the Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival and he then has announced two prominent Iranian Americans, Anousheh Ansari and Firouz Naderi to representing him in the ceremony. Anousheh Ansari is famed for being the first female space tourist and first Iranian in space, a few hours before the ceremony, he addressed a group of protesters in London via a video link from Iran

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The Search (2014 film)
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The Search is a 2014 French drama film written, directed, produced and co-edited by Michel Hazanavicius and co-produced by Thomas Langmann. In the 1948 film, the backdrop is post-war Berlin, The Search takes place in the front lines of the Russian invasion of Chechnya during the first year of the Second Chechen War, in both cases, international aid workers help the families reunite. The Search was selected to compete for the Palme dOr in the competition section at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival. We first meet Kolia as a guitar player in Perm,2300 kilometers from the Chechen border. As a new recruit, he undergoes a transformation from an innocent youth into a dehumanized killing machine. When Kolias fellow soldiers, kill the Chechnan couple, the couples son, Hadji hides and watches. The trauma of his parents death renders him mute and he is helped along the way to the refugee camp by other Chechen refugees and eventually, he is befriended by Carole, a French-born, Chechnya-based NGO worker. Carole, who works as a researcher and representative of the Human Rights Committee of the European Union, Hadjis elder sister Raïssa searches for both brothers. Helen, a Red Cross worker, is interviewed by Carol, raissa, reunited with her baby brother, escapes once again from the village with the help of other Chechen refugees. She has to leave without Hadji, against her will, because of the Russian federal forces aerial bombing, raissa helps Helen at the International Red Cross orphanage. Both Helen and Carole are discouraged when the United Nations Commission of Human Rights report of April 2000 does not declare the situation in Chechnya a humanitarian disaster, Carole delivers her report to the United Nations but soon realizes that not many of the participants are listening. With the help of Carole and Helen, Hadji is reunited with his siblings, the film ends at the beginning, with Kolias filming of the attack on Hadjis family. Critics praised the work of Guillaume Schiffman, the French cinematographer, mcCarthy described how they used muted but still sharply defined colors, as well as with what appear to be mostly handheld cameras, to achieve a somber yet vitally immediate look. On film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, critics gave The Search a rating of 25%, based on 16 reviews, on Metacritic, the film has a normalized score of 37 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating generally unfavorable reviews. Bradshaw did commend Hazanavicius for reminding the west and the European Union of their lack of concern, chang also praised all the actors for turning in fine work within fairly circumscribed parameters, he described the production as first-rate and the sound work as excellent. The Globe and Mail critic Liam Lacey described the film as long, unoriginal and heavy-handed, a direct opposite of Hazanavicius Oscar-winning silent movie comedy, The Artist

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Rachid Bouchareb
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Rachid Bouchareb is an Algerian film director. From 1977 to 1983, he worked as an assistant director for France’s state television production company, subsequently, he worked for broadcasters TF1 and Antenne 2. He formed a company called 3B with his associate Jean Bréhat in 1988. Bouchareb began making films in the 1980s. His featured film debut came in 1985 with Bâton Rouge, boucharebs films have a following amongst international cineastes. His film, Hors-la-loi, competed for the Palme dOr at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival in May and it was the Algerian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 83rd Academy Awards and was one of the five final nominees. 1976, La Pièce 1977, La Chute 1978, Le Banc 1983, Peut-être la mer 1985, Bâton rouge 1991, Cheb, flucht aus Afrika 1994, Poussières de vie, a. k. a. Dust of Life / Die Kinder von Saigon / Der Himmel ohne Sonne 2000, Little Senegal 2006, Days of Glory, a. k. a

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Bouchareb in 2011

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The Childhood of a Leader (film)
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The Childhood of a Leader is a 2015 historical mystery drama film, written, produced and directed by Brady Corbet, and is Corbets feature film directorial debut. It is loosely based on Jean-Paul Sartres short story The Childhood of a Leader, published in 1939 in a collection entitled The Wall, Corbet co-wrote the screenplay with his wife Mona Fastvold, and filmed both an English and a French language version. The film chronicles the childhood of a fascist leader in the immediately following World War I. Production began in early 2015, in Budapest, Hungary, the film had its world premiere in-competition at 72nd Venice International Film Festival on 5 September 2015 and won two awards at the festival, Best Debut film and Best Director. In 1919, an American boy living in France with his authoritarian parents witnesses the creation of the Treaty of Versailles, which shapes his beliefs and causes him to develop a terrifying ego. Advisor Roderick Hill as Older American Gentleman Brady Corbet began writing the script of the ten years ago on his own. He later pick it up again after support from his partner Mona Fastvold, on 1 April 2013, it was announced that Corbet was set to make his feature film directorial debut with a France-set World War I film, based on the script he co-wrote with Mona Fastvold. Corbet would produce along with French producers Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre and Chris Coen, Film Producer Helena Danielsson of Hepp Film also came on board to get the film additional financing. On 10 December 2013, it was announced that Juliette Binoche, Tim Roth, in August 2014, it was announced that both Binoche and Roth had left the project. Roth dropped due to scheduling conflict while Binoche citing the reason that it was too dark, the same month Binoche and Roth were replaced by Bérénice Bejo and Liam Cunningham. Corbet talking about the casting and characters in the said that I have intentionally not revealed the identity of the character. And its a thing because its not for the reasons that people think. One thing I will happily tell everybody is that the character is not Hitler, and the character is not Mussolini. And theres the dramatic event where you learn who this person is, Robert Pattinson is not playing Hitler as you now know. Ill go on the saying that. Corbet held auditions for the casting of the role of Prescott, des Hamilton and his great team found Tom Sweet and brought him in. Tom was everything we had envisioned and more and he is the film’s greatest triumph. Production was originally slated to start from November 2014 but later moved to January 2015, Pattinson describing the film said that Its about the youth of a future dictator in the Thirties, like an amalgamation of Hitler, Mussolini and some others

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Promotional poster

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Brady Corbet
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Brady James Monson Corbet is an American actor and filmmaker. Corbet is known for playing Mason Freeland in the film Thirteen, Brian Lackey in the film Mysterious Skin, Alan Tracy in the 2004 film Thunderbirds and he has made guest appearances on many television shows. He made his film directorial debut with The Childhood of a Leader and won Best Debut film. Corbet played Derek Huxley, the son of Jack Bauers new girlfriend, over the next few years, he was a regular on another anime series, I My Me. Strawberry Eggs, and he guest-starred in a May 2002 episode of the WB sitcom Greetings from Tucson and he also appeared in a May 2003 episode of Fox’s sitcom Oliver Beene. In 2003, Corbet landed his first film role when he was cast opposite Holly Hunter, Evan Rachel Wood, Nikki Reed, Vanessa Hudgens, Corbet once again shared the screen with Hudgens. In 2004, California filmmaker Gregg Araki cast him opposite Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the eighth film. In the film, based on the 1996 novel of the name by Scott Heim, Corbet portrayed Brian Lackey. The film debuted in that years Venice Film Festival and had a release in 2005. In 2006, Corbet returned to television with a role as Derek Huxley, son of Jack Bauers new girlfriend in the fifth season of Foxs Emmy-. Corbet most recently played the role of Watts in the 2011 psychological thriller Martha Marcy May Marlene, Corbet also has appeared in the indie rock band Bright Eyes music video At The Bottom Of Everything. In October 2006, he was featured in the Ima Robot video for Lovers in Captivity, in 2013 Corbet signed on to direct his first feature film The Childhood of a Leader. It premiered in the Horizons section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, Corbet will next direct Vox Lux starring Rooney Mara and Jude Law. Corbet has been dating Norwegian director Mona Fastvold since the production of their film The Sleepwalker and they welcomed a daughter in 2014. Brady Corbet at the Internet Movie Database

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Bertolt Brecht
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Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was born in February 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Brechts mother was a devout Protestant and his father a Catholic. The modest house where he was born is preserved as a Brecht Museum. His father worked for a mill, becoming its managing director in 1914. Thanks to his mothers influence, Brecht knew the Bible, a familiarity that would have an effect on his writing. From her, too, came the image of the self-denying woman that recurs in his drama. Brechts home life was comfortably middle class, despite what his occasional attempt to claim peasant origins implied, at school in Augsburg he met Caspar Neher, with whom he formed a lifelong creative partnership. Neher designed many of the sets for Brechts dramas and helped to forge the distinctive visual iconography of their epic theatre, when Brecht was 16, the First World War broke out. Initially enthusiastic, Brecht soon changed his mind on seeing his classmates swallowed by the army and his expulsion was only prevented through the intervention of his religion teacher. On his fathers recommendation, Brecht sought a loophole by registering for a course at Munich University. There he studied drama with Arthur Kutscher, who inspired in the young Brecht an admiration for the iconoclastic dramatist, from July 1916, Brechts newspaper articles began appearing under the new name Bert Brecht. Brecht was drafted into service in the autumn of 1918, only to be posted back to Augsburg as a medical orderly in a military VD clinic. In July 1919, Brecht and Paula Banholzer had a son, some time in either 1920 or 1921, Brecht took a small part in the political cabaret of the Munich comedian Karl Valentin. Brechts diaries for the few years record numerous visits to see Valentin perform. Brecht compared Valentin to Charlie Chaplin, for his virtually complete rejection of mimicry and he did short sketches in which he played refractory employees, orchestral musicians or photographers, who hated their employers and made them look ridiculous. The employer was played by his partner, Liesl Karlstadt, a popular woman comedian who used to pad herself out, anyone can be creative, he quipped, its rewriting other people thats a challenge. Brecht completed his second play, Drums in the Night. Between November 1921 and April 1922 Brecht made acquaintance with many people in the Berlin cultural scene

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The Hollywood Reporter
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, THR is part of the Hollywood Reporter-Billboard Media Group, a group of properties that includes Billboard and SpinMedia. It is owned by Eldridge Industries, a company owned by an executive of its previous owner. Under Janice Min, a faltering THR was relaunched in 2010 as a weekly print magazine with a revamped, continuously updated website, as well as mobile. THR was founded in 1930 by William R, billy Wilkerson as Hollywoods first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3,1930, and featured Wilkersons front-page Tradeviews column, the newspaper appeared Monday to Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday to Friday from 1940. Wilkerson ran the THR until his death in September 1962, although his final column appeared 18 months prior, from the late 1930s, Wilkerson used THR to push the view that the industry was a communist stronghold. In particular, he opposed the screenplay writers trade union, the Screen Writers Guild, in 1946 the Guild considered creating an American Authors Authority to hold copyright for writers, instead of ownership passing to the studios. Wilkerson devoted his Tradeviews column to the issue on July 29,1946 and he went to confession before publishing it, knowing the damage it would cause, but was apparently encouraged by the priest to go ahead with it. The column contained the first industry names, including Dalton Trumbo and Howard Koch, on became the Hollywood blacklist. Eight of the 11 people Wilkerson named were among the Hollywood Ten who were blacklisted after hearings in 1947 by the House Un-American Activities Committee. In 1997 THR reporter David Robb wrote a story about the newspapers involvement, for the blacklists 65th anniversary in 2012, the THR published a lengthy investigative piece about Wilkersons role, by reporters Gary Baum and Daniel Miller. The same edition carried an apology from Wilkersons son, W. R. Wilkerson III and he wrote that his father had been motivated by revenge for his thwarted ambition to own a studio. Wilkersons wife, Tichi Wilkerson Kassel, took over as publisher and she sold the paper on April 11,1988, to Affiliated Publications, parent company of Billboard Publications, for $26.7 million. Robert J. Dowling became THR president in 1988 and editor-in-chief, Dowling brought in Alex Ben Block as editor in 1990, and editorial quality of both news and specials steadily improved. Block and Teri Ritzer dampened much of the coverage and cronyism that had infected the paper under Wilkerson. After Block left, former editor at Variety, Anita Busch, was brought in as editor between 1999 and 2001. Busch was credited with making the paper competitive with Variety, tony Uphoff assumed the publisher position in November 2005. Uphoff was replaced in October 2006 by John Kilcullen, the publisher of Billboard, Kilcullen was a defendant in Billboards infamous dildo lawsuit, in which he was accused of race discrimination and sexual harassment

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Charlie Rose (TV series)
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Charlie Rose is an American television interview show, with Charlie Rose as executive producer, executive editor, and host. The show is syndicated on PBS and is owned by Charlie Rose, Rose interviews thinkers, writers, politicians, athletes, entertainers, businesspersons, leaders, scientists, and fellow newsmakers. The show premiered on September 30,1991 and it is presented by WNET, where it first aired as a local program. The program is additionally broadcast by Bloomberg Television with a week delay, the set is simple, set up with an all-dark surrounding space around an oak round table used since the program debuted and purchased by Rose himself, along with accompanying chairs. Funding for the show is provided by donations from various corporations. The show has been criticized for not disclosing the list of donors even if the show is considered public broadcasting, in 2010, Rose and co-host Eric Kandel began The Brain Series, episodes featuring neuroscientists and other experts, the series was later released on DVD. In October 2014, a segment called Al Hunt on the Story was launched as a feature interview. The show is filmed at 731 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan, New York City and this is the same building which houses Bloomberg Television, and Bloomberg L. P. which sponsors the show. In February 2017, the show utilized a number of guest hosts while Rose underwent heart surgery, afterwards, Rose stated a planned return in March. Charlie Roses music theme was composed exclusively for the series by David Lowe, Charlie Rose, The Week premiered on PBS on July 19,2013. The show is a long, consisting of interviews from recent episodes of Charlie Rose. The Week replaced the cancelled series Need to Know, and occupies that shows former Friday time slot, list of programs broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service Official website - includes videos of the show available for free

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Bette Davis
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Ruth Elizabeth Bette Davis was an American actress of film, television, and theater. After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, however, her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances, in 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract. Although she lost the legal case against the studio, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinemas most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful, Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative and confrontational. She clashed with executives and film directors as well as many of her co-stars. Her forthright manner, idiosyncratic speech and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona, Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Her career went through periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was widowed and three times divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. In 1999, Davis was placed second behind Katharine Hepburn on the American Film Institutes list of the greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema. Bettys younger sister, Barbara Harriet Bobby, was born October 25,1909, at 55 Ward Street in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1915, Daviss parents separated and Betty and Bobby attended a Spartan boarding school called Crestalban in Lanesborough, which is located in the Berkshires. In 1921, Ruth Davis moved to New York City with her daughters, Betty changed the spelling of her name to Bette after Honoré de Balzacs La Cousine Bette. Davis attended Cushing Academy, a school in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. In 1926, she saw a production of Henrik Ibsens The Wild Duck with Blanche Yurka and Peg Entwistle, Davis later recalled for Al Cohn of Newsday, The reason I wanted to go into theater was because of an actress named Peg Entwistle. She auditioned for admission to Eva LeGalliennes Manhattan Civic Repertory, but was rejected by LeGallienne who described her attitude as insincere, upon graduating from Cushing Academy, Bette enrolled in John Murray Andersons Dramatic School. In 1929, Davis was chosen by Blanche Yurka to play Hedwig, after performing in Philadelphia, Washington and Boston, she made her Broadway debut in 1929 in Broken Dishes, and followed it with Solid South. In 1930, Davis moved to Hollywood to screen test for Universal Studios, Davis and her mother traveled by train to Hollywood and arrived on December 13,1930. She would later recount her surprise that nobody from the studio was there to meet her at the train, in fact, a studio employee had waited for her, but left because he saw nobody who looked like an actress

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Lee Grant
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Lee Grant is an American actress and film director. In her debut film in 1951, she played the role of a shoplifter in Detective Story, co-starring Kirk Douglas. It gave her an Oscar nomination along with the Best Actress Award at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. In 1952, because she refused to testify against her husband at the HUAC hearings, she was blacklisted from most acting jobs for the next 12 years and she was then only able to find occasional work on the stage or as a teacher during that period. It also contributed to her divorce, in 1964, she won the Obie Award for Distinguished Performance by an Actress for her performance in The Maids. During her career, she was nominated for the Emmy Award seven times between 1966 and 1993, winning twice. Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in Manhattan, the child of Witia, an actress and teacher, and Abraham W. Rosenthal. Her father was born in New York City, to Polish Jewish immigrants, the family resided at 706 Riverside Drive in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. Her date of birth is October 31, but different sources cite dates between 1925 and 1928 and she debuted in LOracolo at the Metropolitan Opera in 1931 at age four, and later joined the American Ballet as an adolescent. She attended Art Students League of New York, Juilliard School of Music, The High School of Music & Art, Grant graduated from high school and won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, and studied under Sanford Meisner. She subsequently enrolled in Actors Studio in New York, Grant had her first stage ballet performance in 1933 at the Metropolitan Opera House. In 1938, in her teens, she was made a member of the American Ballet. As an actress, Grant had her stage debut as understudy in Oklahoma in 1944. In 1948, she had her Broadway acting debut in Joy to the World, Grant established herself as a dramatic method actress on and off Broadway, earning praise for her role as a shoplifter in Detective Story in 1949. She said she enjoyed working under director William Wyler, who helped guide her, after her eulogy was published, she was summoned by the same committee to testify against her husband, playwright Arnold Manoff, but refused. As a result, for the dozen years, her prime years, as she put it, she was blacklisted. She was so good that she earned a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her very first film role, but because Eddie Dmytryk named her husband, Lee Grant was blacklisted before her film career even had a chance to begin. Of course, she refused to testify about the man to whom she was married, Grant appeared in a limited number of stage and television shows during these years

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Shirley Booth
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Shirley Booth was an American stage, film, radio and television actress. Primarily a theater actress, Booths Broadway career began in 1925 and her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she received her first Tony Award in 1950. She made her debut, reprising her role in the 1952 film version, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Despite her successful entry into films, she preferred acting on the stage, from 1961 until 1966, she played the title role in the sitcom Hazel, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards. She was later acclaimed for her performance in the 1966 television production of The Glass Menagerie and her final role was that of Mrs. Claus in the 1974 animated television special The Year Without a Santa Claus. Booth was born Marjory Ford in New York City to Albert James, in the 1905 New York state census, she was listed as Thelma Booth Ford. She had one sibling, a sister, Jean. Her childhood was spent in Flatbush, Brooklyn, where she attended Public School 152, when she was seven, Booths family moved to Philadelphia where she first became interested in acting after seeing a stage performance. When Booth was a teenager, her moved to Hartford, Connecticut. She made her debut in a production of Mother Careys Chickens. Against her fathers protests, she dropped out of school and traveled to New York City to further pursue a career and she initially used the name Thelma Booth when her father forbade her to use the family name professionally. She eventually changed her name to Shirley Booth, Booth began her career onstage as a teenager, acting in stock company productions. She was a prominent actress in Pittsburgh theatre for a time and her debut on Broadway was in the play, Hells Bells, opposite Humphrey Bogart on January 26,1925. Booth first attracted notice as the female lead in the comedy hit Three Men on a Horse. During the 1930s and 1940s, she achieved popularity in dramas, comedies and, later, musicals. Her then-husband, Ed Gardner, created and wrote the show as well as playing its lead character, Archie and our Miss Brooks became a radio and television hit when the title role went to Eve Arden, making her a major star. Booth received her first Tony Award, for Best Supporting or Featured Actress, for her performance as Grace Woods in Goodbye, My Fancy. Her second Tony was for Best Actress in a Play, which she received for her acclaimed performance as the tortured wife, Lola Delaney, in the poignant drama Come Back

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Eva Dahlbeck
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Eva Elisabet Dahlbeck was a Swedish actress and author. Eva Dahlbeck was born in Saltsjö-Duvnäs near Stockholm and she attended the prestigious acting school of the Royal Dramatic Theatre from 1941 to 1944, and acted on the Theatres stage from 1944 to 1964. She made her debut in the role of Botilla in Rid i natt. in 1942. In the mid-1950s Dahlbeck was one of Swedens most popular and successful actresses and she became internationally known for her strong female leads in a number of Ingmar Bergmans films, in particular his comedies Secrets of Women, A Lesson in Love and Smiles of a Summer Night. In 1965 she won the award for Best Actress at the 2nd Guldbagge Awards for her role in the film The Cats, in the 1960s Dahlbeck moved away from acting as she started to write. She retired from the stage in 1964 and made her appearance on screen in the Danish film Tintomara. She published several novels and poems in her native Sweden, Dahlbeck married Sven Lampell, an air force officer, in 1944. She lived out the last years of her life in Hässelby Villastad, Stockholm,1961 - Eugene ONeill Award for her stage work. Svenskfilmdatabas. se Eva Dahlbeck at the Internet Movie Database

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Eva Dahlbeck

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Simone Signoret
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Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of Frances greatest film stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, in her lifetime she also received two Césars, three BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Film Festival Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress awards, a NBR Award and a Golden Globe nomination. Signoret was born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany, to André and Georgette Kaminker and her mother, Georgette, from whom she acquired her stage name, was a French Catholic. Signoret grew up in Paris in an atmosphere and studied English, German. During the German occupation of France, Signoret mixed with an group of writers and actors who met at a café in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter. By this time, she had developed an interest in acting and was encouraged by her friends, including her lover, Daniel Gélin and she took her mothers maiden name for the screen to help hide her Jewish roots. Signorets sensual features and earthy nature led to type-casting and she was seen in roles as a prostitute. She won considerable attention in La Ronde, a film which was banned briefly in New York as immoral and she won further acclaim, including an acting award from the British Film Academy, for her portrayal of another prostitute in Jacques Beckers Casque dor. She appeared in notable films in France during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin, directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques. In 1958, Signoret acted in the English independent film, Room at the Top, which won her numerous awards including the Best Female Performance Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 and Marion Cotillard in 2008, and she was offered films in Hollywood, but turned them down, continuing to work in France and England—notably opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial —until 1965. In 1962, Signoret translated Lillian Hellmans play The Little Foxes into French for a production in Paris that ran for six months at the Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt and she played the Regina role as well. Hellman was displeased with the production, although the translation was approved by scholars selected by Hellman, Signorets memoirs, Nostalgia Isnt What It Used To Be, were published in 1978. She also wrote a novel, Adieu Volodya, published in 1985, Signoret first married filmmaker Yves Allégret, with whom she had a daughter Catherine Allégret, herself an actress. Her second marriage was to the Italian-born French actor Yves Montand in 1951, Signoret died of pancreatic cancer in Autheuil-Authouillet, France, aged 64. She was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and Yves Montand was later buried next to her, the play charted the deteriorating relationship between Signoret and Marilyn Monroe during the filming of Lets Make Love. Unable to achieve the recognition of Oscar-winning Signoret, Monroe begins an affair with Signorets husband, singer Nina Simone took her last name from Simone Signoret

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Simone Signoret with Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top; the film established her as an international actress.

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Melina Mercouri
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Maria Amalia Mercouri, known professionally as Melina Mercouri, was a Greek actress, singer and politician. Mercouri was born to a cavalry officer and member of the Greek parliament, Stamatis Mercouris. When she completed her education, she attended the National Theatres Drama School. Mercouris first husband was a landowner, Panos Harokopos. As an actress, Mercouri made her debut in Stella and met international success with her performances in Never on Sunday, Phaedra, Topkapi. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and she was nominated for an Academy Award, a Tony Award, three Golden Globe Awards, and two BAFTA Awards. A political activist during the Greek military junta of 1967–1974, Mercouri became a member of the Hellenic Parliament in 1977, in 1983, Mercouri proposed the programme of the European Capital of Culture, which was established by the European Union in 1985. Mercouri was an advocate for the return to Athens of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Parthenon. After her graduation, Mercouri joined the National Theatre of Greece, in 1949, she had her first major success in the theatre playing Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams and staged by Karolos Kouns Art Theatre. Until 1950, she worked in the same theatre in other plays by Aldous Huxley, Arthur Miller. In 1953, Mercouri received the Marika Kotopouli Prize, Mercouri returned to Greece in 1955. At the Kotopouli-Rex Theatre, Mercouri starred in Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Mercouris first movie was the Greek language film Stella, directed by Zorba the Greek director Michael Cacoyannis. The film received praise at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Their first professional pairing was 1957s He Who Must Die, other films by Dassin and featuring Mercouri followed, such as The Law. Mercouri became well-known to international audiences when she starred in Never on Sunday, in which Dassin was the director and co-star. For this film, she earned the Best Actress Award at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Mercouri worked with directors as Joseph Losey, Vittorio De Sica, Ronald Neame, Carl Foreman, Norman Jewison. Mercouri continued her career in the Greek production of Tennessee Williamss Sweet Bird of Youth

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Sophia Loren
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Sophia Loren is an Italian film actress. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant and she appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, after starting her family in the early 1970s, Loren spent less time on her acting career and chose to make only occasional film appearances. In later years, she has appeared in American films such as Grumpier Old Men, in 1995, she received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievements, one of such awards. In 1999, Loren was acknowledged as one of the top 25 female American Screen Legends in the American Film Institutes survey, AFIs 100 Years.100 Stars. Loren was born Sofia Villani Scicolone in the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy, the daughter of Romilda Villani and Riccardo Scicolone, Riccardo Scicolone refused to marry Villani, leaving the piano teacher and aspiring actress without support. Lorens parents had another child together, her sister Maria, in 1938, Loren has two younger paternal half-brothers, Giuliano and Giuseppe. Romilda, Sofia, and Maria lived with Lorens grandmother in Pozzuoli, during World War II, the harbour and munitions plant in Pozzuoli was a frequent bombing target of the Allies. During one raid, as Loren ran to the shelter, she was struck by shrapnel, after that, the family moved to Naples, where they were taken in by distant relatives. After the war, Loren and her returned to Pozzuoli. Lorens grandmother Luisa opened a pub in their room, selling homemade cherry liquor. Romilda Villani played the piano, Maria sang, and Loren waited on tables, the place was popular with the American GIs stationed nearby. When she was 14, Sofia entered a beauty pageant, Miss Italia 1950 and, later, she enrolled in acting class and was selected as an uncredited extra in Mervyn LeRoys film Quo Vadis, at the age of 15. In 1951, she appeared in Italian film Era lui. sì. sì. where she played an odalisque. She appeared in bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade. She began using her current stage name in La Favorita, the new name being a twist on the name of the Swedish actress Märta Torén and was suggested by Goffredo Lombardo or Carlo Ponti and her first starring role was in Aida, for which she received critical acclaim. After playing the role in Two Nights with Cleopatra, her breakthrough role was in The Gold of Naples

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Rita Tushingham
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Rita Tushingham is an English actress. She is known for her roles in 1960s films including A Taste of Honey, The Leather Boys, The Knack …and How to Get It, Doctor Zhivago. For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure, Under the Skin, and Being Julia. Tushingham was born in Liverpool, Lancashire where her father was a grocer who ran three shops and she grew up in the Hunts Cross area and she attended the Heatherlea school in Allerton, the La Sagesse convent school in Grassendale and then studied shorthand and typing at secretarial school. She wanted to be an actress from an age and trained at the Shelagh Elliott-Clarke school before working backstage as an assistant stage manager at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey and she also co-starred as Margaret Sheen in the TV film Green Eyes, the touching story of a Vietnam veteran who returns to Southeast Asia after the war to find his son. In the 1960s Tushingham performed several plays for the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, The Changeling, The Kitchen, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night and The Knack. Tushingham has won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award, and was a member of the jury at the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival in 1972 and at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival in 1990. Later roles include the film Being Julia, starring Annette Bening, and on television in The Sittaford Mystery and she appeared in Season 2 of the BBC3 zombie drama In The Flesh as Mrs Lamb, broadcast in May 2014. Clips from her performance in The Leather Boys appeared in the Smiths music video for the single Girlfriend in a Coma, in 1987. She is also mentioned in the Franz Ferdinand song L. Wells, the Cleaners From Venus song Illya Kuryakin Looked at Me, in 1999, she was featured on This Is Your Life. Tushingham married photographer Terry Bicknell in 1962 and they had two daughters, Dodonna and Aisha Bicknell. In 1981, she married Iraqi cinematographer Ousama Rawi, spending eight years in Canada with him and she now divides her time between Germany and London, with her partner since the mid-1990s, writer Hans-Heinrich Ziemann. In April 2005, at the age of 33, her daughter Aisha Bicknell was diagnosed with breast cancer, Aisha recovered and later gave birth to a son. Tushingham became an activist for breast cancer health and support, Tushingham and Bicknell are prominent supporters of Cancer Research UKs Relay for Life and have given a number of interviews to raise breast cancer awareness. In July 2009, Tushingham received an Honorary Fellowship from Liverpool John Moores University for outstanding, notes The Rita Tushingham Home Page Rita Tushingham at the Internet Movie Database Rita Tushingham at the British Film Institutes Screenonline

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Marina Vlady
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Marina Vlady is a French actress. Born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine to Russian immigrant parents, she won the Best Actress Award at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival for The Conjugal Bed, from 1955-59 she was married to actor/director Robert Hossein. From 1963-66 she was married to Jean-Claude Brouillet, a French entrepreneur and she was married to Soviet poet/songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky from 1969 until his death in 1980. She lived with French oncologist Léon Schwartzenberg from the 1980s until his death in 2003, in 1965 she was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Marina Vladys sisters, now all deceased, were the actresses Odile Versois, Hélène Vallier and their father was an opera singer of Russian descent, and their mother was a dancer. The sisters began acting as children and for a while pursued a ballet career and she starred alongside Jean-Luc Godard as the female lead in 2 ou 3 choses que je sais delle, and later portrayed the insightful and protective stepmother in the Italian film Il sapore del grano. A rare English language role was as Kate Percy in Orson Welles Chimes at Midnight and her television credits include the 1983 mini series La Chambre des Dames. She wrote Vladimir, or the Aborted Flight, a memoir of her relationship with Vladimir Vysotsky, the problems of his long-distance relationship with Vlady inspired several of Vysotskys songs. She and Léon Schwartzenberg participated in the protests against deportations of Arab workers from France and she accepted a role in a film about a gay couple from Iran. Vlady is also continuing her career, both as a writer and as an actress, among others, she has published a book on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a topic that was close to Vysotskys heart. She has continued acting on stage and she also came out with a one-woman show based on her book about Vysotsky

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Marina Vlady, 1996

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Anne Bancroft
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Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, known professionally as Anne Bancroft, was an American actress associated with the method acting school, having studied under Lee Strasberg. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft was acknowledged for her work in film, theatre and she won one Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globes, two Tony Awards and two Emmy Awards, and several other awards and nominations. She won both an Oscar for her work in the film, and a Tony for the role in the play. On Broadway in 1965, she played a medieval nun obsessed with a priest in John Whitings play The Devils and she was perhaps best known as the seductress, Mrs. Robinson, in The Graduate, a role that she later stated had come to overshadow her other work. Bancroft received several other Oscar nominations and continued in lead roles until the late 1980s, in 1987, she starred with Anthony Hopkins in 84 Charing Cross Road. In the 1990s she returned to supporting roles in films, and she received Emmy and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, for The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, as well as an Emmy nomination for 2001s Haven. Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano in the Bronx, New York, Bancrofts parents were both children of Italian immigrants. In an interview, she stated her family was originally from Muro Lucano and she was raised in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx, later moving to 1580 Zerega Ave. and graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in 1948. She later attended HB Studio, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, the Actors Studio, after appearing in a number of live television dramas under the name Anne Marno, she was told to change her surname for her film debut in Dont Bother to Knock. In 1958, Bancroft made her Broadway debut as lovelorn, Bronx-accented Gittel Mosca opposite Henry Fonda in William Gibsons two-character play Two for the Seesaw, for Gittel, she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play. She took the role to Hollywood, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She had returned to Broadway to star in Mother Courage and Her Children, so Joan Crawford accepted Bancrofts Oscar on her behalf, Bancroft is one of the few actors to have won an Academy Award and a Tony Award for the same role. Bancroft co-starred as a medieval nun obsessed with a priest in the 1965 Broadway production of John Whitings play The Devils, produced by Alexander H. Cohen and directed by Michael Cacoyannis, it ran for 63 performances. Bancroft received a second Academy Award nomination in 1965 for her performance in The Pumpkin Eater and her best-known role during this period was Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate, for which she received a third Academy Award nomination. In the film, she played a married woman who seduces a family friend. In the movie, Hoffmans character later dates and falls in love with her daughter, Bancroft was ambivalent about her appearance in The Graduate, she stated in several interviews that the role overshadowed all of her other work. Despite her character becoming an archetype of the older woman role, a CBS television special, Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man, won Bancroft an Emmy Award for her singing and acting. Bancroft is one of few entertainers to win an Oscar, an Emmy

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Samantha Eggar
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Samantha Eggar is an English-American film, stage, television and voice actress. She would later appear as Emma Fairfax in Doctor Dolittle, and her television work includes roles in Fantasy Island, and a recurring part as Charlotte Devane on the soap opera All My Children in 2000. Samantha Eggar was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar on 5 March 1939 in Hampstead, London, to Ralph, shortly after her birth, her family relocated to rural Bledlow, Buckinghamshire, during World War II, where she spent her childhood. There, she was neighbours with Oliver Reed, Eggar was brought up as a Roman Catholic and educated at St Marys Providence Convent in Woking, Surrey. Reflecting on her time in convent school, Eggar said, The nuns didnt have too much success with me—Ive always had a violent temper, in fact, once I almost killed one of the nuns. At age sixteen, she began to go by the name Samantha, although Eggar expressed interest in acting at a young age, she was urged against a career in the theatre by her parents. She was offered a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, after completing her studies, she enrolled at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Eggar began her career in several Shakespearean companies, notably playing Titania in a 1962 production of A Midsummer Nights Dream. Her second film role was in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing, in 1965, Eggar appeared in the thriller The Collector, directed by William Wyler, playing a kidnap victim. She received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and she was also awarded Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966. On her role as Miranda in The Collector, Eggar has said, the tension on set was real. And if the tension wasnt there – if I didn’t exude precisely what he wanted – well, Willie just poured cold water over me. The following year, Eggar starred in the comedy Walk, Dont Run with Cary Grant and Jim Hutton, in 1963, she played the title character in Marcia, a second-season episode of The Saint. After her appearance in The Saint, Eggar did not appear in television for 10 years, the same year, she played Phyllis Dietrichson in a television remake of Double Indemnity. She would go on to star in a number of films, including The Dead Are Alive, A Name for Evil, The Uncanny. In 1980, she filmed the Canadian slasher film Curtains, released in 1983 and she also appeared as Maggie Gioberti in The Vintage Years, the pilot for the drama Falcon Crest, but was replaced by Susan Sullivan when the series went into production. She appeared in the drama Dark Horse in 1992, followed by the superhero film The Phantom, in 1997, she provided the voice of Hera in Disneys animated film Hercules, she would also supply the voice for the subsequent television series. Eggar also had a role in a 1999 picture, The Astronauts Wife, in 2000, she had a brief run as Charlotte Devine in the American soap opera All My Children

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Vanessa Redgrave
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Vanessa Redgrave, CBE is an English actress of stage, screen and television, as well as a political activist. She is a 2003 American Theatre Hall of Fame inductee, and she also received Tony nominations for The Year of Magical Thinking and Driving Miss Daisy. On screen, she has starred in scores of films and is a six-time Oscar nominee and her other nominations were for Morgan, A Suitable Case for Treatment, Isadora, Mary, Queen of Scots, The Bostonians and Howards End. Among her other films are A Man for All Seasons, Blowup, Camelot, The Devils, Murder on the Orient Express, Prick Up Your Ears, Mission, Impossible, Atonement, Coriolanus and The Butler. Redgrave was born in Greenwich, London, the daughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave, laurence Olivier announced her birth to the audience at a performance of Hamlet at the Old Vic, when he said that Laertes had a daughter. She was educated at the Alice Ottley School, Worcester, and Queens Gate School, London and her siblings, Lynn Redgrave and Corin Redgrave, were also acclaimed actors. Vanessa Redgrave entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954 and she first appeared in the West End, playing opposite her brother, in 1958. In 1960, Redgrave had her first starring role in Robert Bolts The Tiger, in 1961, she played Rosalind in As You Like It for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 1962, she played Imogen in William Gaskills production of Cymbeline for the RSC. In 1966, Redgrave created the role of Jean Brodie in the Donald Albery production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and she won four Evening Standard Awards for Best Actress in four decades. In 2003 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in the Broadway revival of Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey Into Night. In January 2006, Redgrave was presented the Ibsen Centennial Award for her work in interpreting many of Henrik Ibsens works over the last decades. Previous recipients of the award include Liv Ullmann, Glenda Jackson, for this, she won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play. She reprised the role at the Lyttelton Theatre at the Royal National Theatre in London to mixed reviews and she also spent a week performing the work at the Theatre Royal in Bath in September 2008. She once again performed the role of Joan Didion for a benefit at New Yorks Cathedral of Saint John the Divine on 26 October 2009. The performance was originally slated to debut on 27 April, but was pushed due to the death of Redgraves daughter Natasha, the proceeds for the benefit were donated to the United Nations Childrens Fund and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Both charities work to help for the children of Gaza. In October 2010, she starred in the Broadway premiere of Driving Miss Daisy starring in the role opposite James Earl Jones

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Pia Degermark
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Pia Charlotte Caminneci Degermark is a Swedish former actress. Born Pia Charlotte Degermark, she came to notice as the lead in Elvira Madigan, directed by Bo Widerberg. She was spotted by Widerberg in a newspaper photograph dancing with the Swedish Crown Prince Carl Gustav and her acting career ended as a result of personal problems. She married Siemens heir and film producer Pier Caminneci in 1971, and had a son with him, Degermark moved to the United States for a time. She returned to Sweden in 1979 suffering from anorexia, subsequently, she worked in womens voluntary groups with sufferers of the condition. In 1991, Degermark was sentenced to 14 months in prison for fraud, Elvira Madigan as Elvira Madigan The Looking Glass War as The Girl A Brief Season The Vampire Happening as Betty Williams/Clarimonde Pia Degermark at the Internet Movie Database

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Susannah York
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Susannah Yolande Fletcher, known professionally as Susannah York, was an English film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Dont They. and was nominated for an Oscar and she won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres and her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica, she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring. York had a sister, as well as a half-brother, Eugene Xavier Charles William Peel Fletcher. In early 1943, her mother married a Scottish businessman, Adam M. Hamilton, at the age of 11 York entered Marr College in Troon, Ayrshire. Later she became a boarder at Wispers School, a school housed in Wispers, at 13 she was removed – effectively expelled – from Wispers after owning up to a nude midnight swim in the school pool, and she transferred to East Haddon Hall in Northamptonshire. There she won the Ronson award for most promising student before graduating in 1958 and her film career began with Tunes of Glory, co-starring with Alec Guinness and John Mills. In 1961, she played the role in The Greengage Summer. In 1962, she performed in Freud, The Secret Passion with Montgomery Clift in the title role, York played Sophie Western opposite Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning Best Film Tom Jones. She also appeared in Kaleidescope, A Man for All Seasons, The Killing of Sister George, scott, playing the title role in an American television movie of Jane Eyre. It was also in 1970 that Susannah York played opposite Peter OToole in Country Dance, York was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Dont They. She snubbed the Academy when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked and she was highly praised for her performance, though she said I dont think much of the film, or of myself in it. She did attend the ceremony but lost to Goldie Hawn for her role in Cactus Flower, in 1972, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. She played Supermans mother Lara on the doomed planet Krypton in Superman and its sequels, Superman II and Superman IV, The Quest for Peace. York made extensive appearances in British television series, including Prince Regent, as Maria Fitzherbert, the wife of the future George IV. In 1984, York starred as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and she again co-starred with George C. Scott, David Warner, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence and Anthony Walters, in 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2003, York had a role as hospital manager Helen Grant in the BBC1 television drama series Holby City

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Joanne Woodward
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Joanne Gignilliat Trimmier Woodward is an American actress, producer, activist, and philanthropist. She is perhaps best known for her Academy Award-winning role in The Three Faces of Eve. Woodward was born on February 27,1930, in Thomasville, Georgia, daughter of Elinor and Wade Woodward and her middle names, Gignilliat Trimmier, are of Huguenot origin. She was influenced to become an actress by her mothers love of movies and her mother named her after Joan Crawford, using the Southern pronunciation of the name – Joanne. She eventually worked with Olivier in 1977, in a production of Come Back. During rehearsals, she mentioned this incident to him, and he told her that he remembered her doing it, Woodward lived in Thomasville until she was in the second grade, when her family relocated to Marietta, Georgia, where she attended Marietta High School. She remains a booster of Marietta High and of that citys Strand Theater and they moved once again when she was a junior in high school, after her parents divorced. She graduated from Greenville High School in Greenville, South Carolina in 1947, Woodward won many beauty contests as a teenager. She appeared in productions at Greenville High and in Greenvilles Little Theatre, playing Laura Wingfield in their staging of The Glass Menagerie. She returned to Greenville in 1976, to play Amanda Wingfield in another Little Theatre production of The Glass Menagerie and she had also returned in 1955 for the premiére of her debut movie, Count Three And Pray, at the Paris Theatre on North Main Street. Woodward majored in drama at Louisiana State University, where she was an initiate of Chi Omega sorority, woodwards first film was a post-Civil War Western, Count Three and Pray, in 1955. She continued to move between Hollywood and Broadway, eventually understudying in the New York production of Picnic, which featured her future husband Paul Newman, the two were married in 1958, after their work together in the film The Long, Hot Summer. By that time, Woodward had starred in The Three Faces of Eve and she appeared with husband Paul Newman in ten feature films, The Long, Hot Summer Rally Round the Flag, Boys. From the Terrace Paris Blues A New Kind of Love Winning WUSA The Drowning Pool Harry & Son — Mr. and she appeared in the television films Sybil, opposite Sally Field, and Crisis at Central High. She was the narrator for Martin Scorseses screen version of The Age of Innocence, Woodward was a co-producer and starred in a 1993 broadcast of the play Blind Spot, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress – Miniseries or a Movie. In 1995, Woodward directed off-broadway revivals of Clifford Odets Golden Boy, Woodward served as the artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse from 2001 to 2005. She recorded a reading of singer John Mellencamps song The Real Life for his box set On the Rural Route 7609, in 2011, she narrated the Scholastic/Weston Woods film All the World. Woodward was reported to have engaged to author Gore Vidal prior to marrying Paul Newman

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Valerie Perrine
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Valerie Ritchie Perrine is an American actress and model. Perrine was born in Galveston, Texas, the daughter of Winifred Renee, a dancer who appeared in Earl Carrolls Vanities, and Kenneth Perrine and her mother was Scottish, from Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire. Owing to her fathers career, Perrine lived in locations as the family moved to different posts. She began her career as a Las Vegas showgirl, some believe she made her film debut with an uncredited part in Diamonds Are Forever, but this is not true. She played soft-core pornography actress Montana Wildhack in Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five, Perrine was photographed for a pictorial layout in the May 1972 issue of Playboy, later appearing on the cover in August 1981. Only a few PBS stations nationwide were adventurous enough to carry the program, later in 1973, she appeared in the episode When the Girls Came Out to Play of the romantic anthology television series Love Story. She was Carlotta Monti in the biopic W. C, one of her best-remembered movie roles came as Miss Eve Teschmacher, moll of criminal mastermind Lex Luthor, in Superman. For this role, she was nominated for the 1979 Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress and she reprised her role as Miss Teschmacher in Superman II. Perrine played Charlotta Steele, ex-wife of a rodeo champion played by Robert Redford and her career grew uneven after an appearance in Cant Stop the Music, for which she was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actress. This film has become a cult classic. In 1982, she played the role of Marcy, the wife of a police officer. In the years since then, Perrine has worked in lower-profile projects, in 1995, Perrine made a guest appearance on the series Homicide, Life on the Street, playing an ex-wife of Richard Belzers Detective John Munch. Official website Valerie Perrine at the Internet Movie Database

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Valerie Perrine in Amsterdam in 1975

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Dominique Sanda
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Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne, professionally known as Dominique Sanda, is a French actress and former fashion model. Sanda was born in Paris to Lucienne and Gérard Varaigne and she appeared in such noted European films of the 1970s as Vittorio de Sicas Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini, Bernardo Bertoluccis The Conformist and Novecento, and Liliana Cavanis Beyond Good and Evil. She also appeared in The Mackintosh Man and Steppenwolf, in 1993 at the Théâtre de la Commune, in Aubervilliers, France, she played Melitta in Madame Klein, directed by Brigitte Jaques-Wajeman. In 1995 in Italy, she played the Marquise de Merteuil in Les liaisons dangereuses, based on Choderlos de Lacloss novel, from 1995–1996 in France and Belgium, she has been Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, directed by Adrian Brine. In the 1970s, she lived with actor/director Christian Marquand, with whom she had a son, in 2000, she married Nicolae Cutzarida, a philosopher and University professor of Romanian origin. She won the award for Best Actress at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film The Inheritance, official website Dominique Sanda at the Internet Movie Database Dominique Sanda at AllMovie

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Dominique Sanda at the Film Museum in Vienna in 2013

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Jill Clayburgh
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Jill Clayburgh was an American actress. She won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1978 film An Unmarried Woman and she received a second Best Actress Academy Award nomination for the 1979 film Starting Over. Clayburgh made her Broadway debut in 1968 and starred in the original Broadway productions of the musicals The Rothschilds and she starred in the 1975 TV movie Hustling, which earned her an Emmy Award nomination. In 1984, she returned to Broadway in the revival of the play Design for Living and she received a second Emmy nomination for her 2004 guest role in the drama series Nip/Tuck. She next starred in the drama series Dirty Sexy Money and her other film roles included Silver Streak, Semi-Tough, La Luna, First Monday in October, Shy People, Whispers in the Dark and Bridesmaids. Her paternal grandmother was concert and opera singer Alma Lachenbruch Clayburgh, Clayburghs mother was Protestant and her father came from a wealthy Jewish family. She was raised on Manhattans Upper East Side, where she attended the Brearley School and she then attended Sarah Lawrence College, where she decided that she wanted to be an actress. Clayburgh joined the Charles Street Repertory Theater in Boston and she went on to appear in numerous Broadway productions in the 1970s and 1980s, including the musicals The Rothschilds in 1972 and Pippin in 1975. She also starred in the critically acclaimed romantic drama Griffin and Phoenix and she also received strong notices for a dramatic performance in Im Dancing as Fast as I Can. Television audiences know Clayburgh from numerous roles in series and movies including Search For Tomorrow, Law & Order, The Practice and she received Emmy Award nominations for her work in the made-for-television movie Hustling in 1975 and for guest appearances in the series Nip/Tuck in 2005. In 2006, she appeared on Broadway in Neil Simons Barefoot in the Park with Patrick Wilson and Amanda Peet, she played Peets mother, during 2007, Clayburgh appeared in the ABC television series Dirty Sexy Money, playing Letitia Darling. Clayburgh had chronic lymphocytic leukemia for more than 20 years before dying from the disease at her home in Lakeville, Connecticut, the movie Love & Other Drugs was dedicated to her memory. The 2011 film Bridesmaids was Clayburghs final film appearance, in 2012, friend and fellow actor Frank Langella wrote about their friendship in a chapter of his book Dropped Names, Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them. Her close friend and playwright Richard Greenberg wrote about her last days in a chapter of his book Rules for Others to Live By, Comments, Clayburgh married screenwriter and playwright David Rabe in 1979. They had one son, Michael Rabe, and one daughter, prior to this, she had dated actor Al Pacino for five years. org Jill Clayburgh at Emmys. com

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Isabelle Huppert
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Isabelle Anne Madeleine Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in more than 100 films and television productions since her debut in 1971. She is the most nominated actress for the César Award, with 16 nominations and she twice won the César Award for Best Actress, for La Cérémonie and for Elle. Huppert was made Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite in 1994 and was promoted to Officier in 2005 and she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1999 and was promoted to Officer in 2009. Hupperts first César nomination was for the 1975 film Aloïse, in 1978, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer for The Lacemaker. Her other films in France include Loulou, La Séparation,8 Women, Gabrielle, Amour, among international films most prolific actresses, Huppert has worked in Italy, Russia, Central Europe, and on the Asian continent. Her English-language films include, Heavens Gate, I Heart Huckabees, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, and Louder Than Bombs. In 2016, Huppert garnered international acclaim for her work in Elle, for which she won a Golden Globe Award, an Independent Spirit Award and a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. She also won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics, New York Film Critics Circle, Huppert is the most nominated actress for the Molière Award, with 7 nominations. She made her London stage debut in the role of the play Mary Stuart in 1996. She returned to the New York stage in 2009 to perform in Heiner Müllers Quartett, Huppert was born in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, the daughter of Annick, an English teacher, and Raymond Huppert, a safe manufacturer. She has a brother and three sisters, including filmmaker Caroline Huppert and her father was Jewish, his family is from Prešov and Alsace-Lorraine. Huppert was raised in her mothers Catholic faith, Huppert was encouraged by her mother to begin acting at a young age, and became a teenage star in Paris. She later attended Versailles Conservatoire, where she won a prize for her acting and she is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD. Huppert made her debut in 1971 with Le Prussien. Her later appearance in the controversial Les Valseuses made her increasingly recognized by the public and her international breakthrough came with La Dentelliere, for which she won a BAFTA award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles. In 1994, Huppert collaborated with American director Hal Hartley on Amateur and she also appeared in Michael Hanekes The Piano Teacher, which is based on a novel of the same name by Austrian author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, Elfriede Jelinek. In this film, she played a teacher named Erika Kohut. Regarded as one of her most impressive turns, her performance netted the 2001 Best Actress prize in Cannes, in 2004, she starred in Christophe Honorés Ma Mère as Hélène with Louis Garrel

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Sally Field
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Sally Margaret Field is an American film and television actress and director. Field began her career in television, starring on the sitcoms Gidget and she ventured into film with Smokey and the Bandit and later Norma Rae, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. She later received Golden Globe Award nominations for her performances in Absence of Malice and Kiss Me Goodbye, Field received further nominations for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for Murphys Romance and Steel Magnolias. In the 2000s, she returned to television with a role on the NBC medical drama ER. She also appeared as Aunt May in The Amazing Spider-Man and reprised the role in the 2014 sequel. As a director, Field is known for the television film The Christmas Tree, in 2014, she was presented with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Sally Field was born in Pasadena, California, to Margaret, mr. Field was an army officer. Following her parents 1950 divorce, her mother married actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney, through her maternal grandmothers genealogical line, Field is a descendant of a Mayflower passenger and colonial governor William Bradford, her 10 times great-grandfather. As a teen, Field attended Portola Middle School and Birmingham High School in Van Nuys and her classmates included financier Michael Milken, actress Cindy Williams, and talent agent Michael Ovitz. Field got her start on television as the surfer girl in the sitcom Gidget. The show was not a success and was canceled after a single season, however, summer reruns garnered respectable ratings. Wanting to find a new starring vehicle for Field, ABC next produced The Flying Nun with Field cast as Sister Bertrille for three seasons, from 1967 to 1970. In an interview included on the Season One DVD release, Field said that she thoroughly enjoyed Gidget, Field was then typecast, finding respectable roles difficult to come by. In 1971, Field starred in the ABC TV movie Maybe Ill Come Home in the Spring, playing a teen runaway who returns home with a bearded. She made several guest television appearances through the mid 1970s, including a role on the western Alias Smith and Jones and she also appeared in the episode Whisper on the TV thriller Night Gallery. In 1973, Field was cast in a role opposite John Davidson in the short-lived series The Girl with Something Extra from 1973 to 1974. Following the series cancellation, Field studied at the Actors Studio with the acting teacher Lee Strasberg, Strasberg became a mentor to the actress, helping her to move past her television image of the girl next door. It was during time period that Field divorced her first husband in 1975

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Isabelle Adjani
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Isabelle Yasmina Adjani is a French film actress and singer. She is one of the most acclaimed French actresses of all time and she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2010, and a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014. After success in the Comédie-Française, Adjanis lauded performance as Adele Hugo in the 1975 film The Story of Adele H. earned her the first of two nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her second nomination for Camille Claudel made her the first French actress to receive two nominations and she also won Best Actress at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival for Possession and Quartet, and the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 1989 Berlin Film Festival for Camille Claudel. Her other films include The Tenant, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Subway, Diabolique, gusti met Adjanis father, Mohammed Adjani, near the end of World War II, when he was in the French Army. They married and she returned him to Paris, not speaking a word of French. She asked him to take Cherif as his first name as it sounded more American, Isabelle grew up bilingual, speaking French and German fluently, in Gennevilliers, a northwestern suburb of Paris, where her father worked in a garage. She said her parents used their ethnic and cultural differences against each other in arguments, after winning a school recitation contest, Adjani began acting by the age of twelve in amateur theater. She successfully passed her baccalauréat and was auditing classes at the University of Vincennes in 1976, Adjani had a younger brother Éric, who was a photographer. Éric died on 25 December 2010, aged 53, at the age of 14, Adjani starred in her first motion picture, Le Petit bougnat. She first gained fame as an actress at the Comédie française. She was praised for her interpretation of Agnès, the female role in Molières LÉcole des femmes. She soon left the theatre to pursue a film career, after minor roles in several films, she enjoyed modest success in the 1974 film La Gifle, which François Truffaut saw. He immediately cast her in her first major role in his The Story of Adèle H. which he had finished writing five years prior. Critics praised her performance, with the American critic Pauline Kael describing her acting talents as prodigious. </ref>Only 19 when she made the film, Adjani was nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, making her the youngest best actress nominee at the time. She quickly received offers for roles in Hollywood films, such as Walter Hills 1978 crime thriller The Driver and she had previously turned down the chance to star in films like The Other Side of Midnight. She had described Hollywood as a city of fiction and said, I didnt grow up with that will to win an award. Truffaut on the hand said, France is too small for her

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Norma Aleandro
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Norma Aleandro Robledo is an Argentine actress, screenwriter and theatre director. Recognised as a film icon, Aleandro starred in the Oscar-winning 1985 film, The Official Story. She has also performed in successful films like The Truce, Cousins, Autumn Sun, The Lighthouse, Son of the Bride. For her performance as Florencia Sánchez Morales in the 1987 film Gaby, A True Story, she received a Golden Globe nomination, Aleandro has written the 1970 film, The Inheritors, and has performed in various plays such like August, Osage County. Aleandro recently appeared in the Argentine adaptation of BeTipul, the critical success En terapia, Aleandro was the daughter of actor Pedro Aleandro. During the late 1970s, she was vocal about her progressive views, later Aleandro moved to Spain and did not return to Argentina until after the military junta fell in 1983. In 1985, her role was the Argentine Academy Award-winning film The Official Story. For her acting in the film she won, among others and she worked in several other Argentine movies such as the Academy Award-nominated Son of the Bride, Sol de Otoño, and El Faro. Aleandro co-starred in a few Hollywood films such as One Mans War, with Anthony Hopkins and she also had a minor role in Cousins. Back in Argentina she returned to the stage with Master Class, the same year she was honored as Ciudadano Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. In 2009, Aleandro appeared in The City of Your Final Destination, directed by James Ivory and co-starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, new York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Actress for The Official Story,1985. Cartagena Film Festival, Best Actress for The Official Story,1985, david di Donatello, Best Foreign Actress for The Official Story,1987. Donostia-San Sebastián International Film Festival, Best Actress for Sol de Otoño,1996, havana Film Festival, Best Actress for Sol de Otoño,1996. Gramado Film Festival, Best Latin Actress for Son of the Bride,2002, Academy Award, Best Supporting Actress for Gaby, A True Story,1987. Golden Globe Award, Best Supporting Actress for Gaby, A True Story,1987, martín Fierro Awards, for En terapia,2012,2013. Konex Award, Diamond Award in 2001, Argentine Film Critics Association Awards, Best Supporting Actress for Son of the Bride,2001, Best Actress for Sol de Otoño,1996, Best Actress for The Official Story,1985. Martín Fierro Awards, Six Awards throughout the years, tato Award, Best Lead Actress in Drama, for En terapia,2013. Association of Latin Entertainment Critics Awards, Best Character Actress for Cama Adentro,2006, obie Award, Distinguished Performance for About Love and Other Stories About Love,1985

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Barbara Hershey
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Barbara Hershey, once known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema in several genres, including Westerns and she began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as one of Americas finest actresses, Hershey won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries/TV Film for her role in A Killing in a Small Town. For the latter film, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In addition, she has won two Best Actress awards at the Cannes Film Festival for her roles in Shy People and A World Apart, establishing a reputation early in her career as a hippie, Hershey experienced conflict between her personal life and her acting goals. Her career suffered a decline during a relationship with actor David Carradine. She experimented with a change in name that she later regretted. During this time, her life was highly publicized and ridiculed. Her acting career was not well established until she separated from Carradine, later in her career, she began to keep her personal life private. Barbara Herzstein was born in Hollywood, the daughter of Arnold Nathan Herzstein, a horse-racing columnist and her fathers parents were Jews who had emigrated from Hungary and Russia respectively, while her mother, a native of Arkansas, was a Presbyterian of Irish descent. The youngest of three children, Barbara always wanted to be an actress, and her family nicknamed her Sarah Bernhardt and she was shy in school and so quiet that people thought she was deaf. By the age of 10, she proved herself to be an A student and her high-school drama coach helped her find an agent, and in 1965, at age 17, she landed a role on Sally Fields television series Gidget. Barbara said that she found Field to be supportive of her in her first acting role. Barbaras acting debut, three episodes of Gidget, was followed by the television series The Monroes, which also featured Michael Anderson. By this point, she had adopted the stage name Barbara Hershey, although Hershey said the series helped her career, she expressed some frustration with her role, saying, One week I was strong, the next, weak. While on the series, Hershey garnered several other roles, including one in Doris Days final feature film, in 1969, Hershey co-starred in the Glenn Ford Western Heaven with a Gun. On the set, she met and began a relationship with actor David Carradine. In the same year, she acted in the controversial drama Last Summer, in this film, Hershey played Sandy, the heavy who influences two young men to rape another girl, Rhoda

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Hershey in 1981

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Linda Mvusi
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Linda Mvusi is an actress and architect. Mvusi took an award for best actress at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival for her role in the film A World Apart which was directed by Chris Menges, Mvusi was the first South African to get a best Actress award at Cannes. Mvusi also shared in an award for excellence for her architecture on the Apartheid Museum, linda Mvusi was born in the Free State in 1955 and was brought up in Northern Rhodesia, Ghana and Kenya. She trained as an architect and was practising her craft in Harare when she met Chris Menges who was trying to find locations for his film, A World Apart, near Bulawayo. Mvusi was initially wary of film as she suspected it was a film made by outsiders with foreign money for a foreign audience. Mvusi felt that the millions of money was preventing Africans from telling their own story. She said white film makers suppressing our own growth, our own view of history our own reality, however Menges impressed her when he began to cast locals and ANC members into the cast. The film was based on a play by Shawn Slovo. The film tells the story of thirteen-year-old Shawn Slovo the daughter of Joe Slovo and it is primarily about her mother Ruth Firsts life. The film explores the relationship between the daughter and her white mother, the mother is committed to the fight against the political oppression in South Africa, but the pressure of the family and politics collide and bring about the families break-up. It is set at the time of the regime in South Africa. Joe Slovo was then the head of the communist party in South Africa, in the film the names of the parents are changed to Gus and Diana Roth and their daughter is renamed Molly. In real life and in the film employed a maid to care for their child. This person, Elsie, was played by Mvusi in the film, Menges said he preferred to work with non-professional actors like Mvusi and Jodhi May. This view may have reflected however the relationship between Menges and Barbara Hershey, who played the leading role of the mother. Mvusi reported that there were many arguments during the making of the film, much of the tension was due to not wanting to lose the black story, but Mvusi felt the arguments were worth it as the film was true to its message. She credits Menges with ensuring that they are sympathetic, because they are true. The film was dedicated to Ruth First who was killed by a bomb sent by the South African Police in 1982

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The Apartheid Museum which Mvusi worked on

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Krystyna Janda
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Krystyna Janda is a Polish film and theater actress best known internationally for playing leading roles in several films by Polish director Andrzej Wajda, including Man of Marble and Man of Iron. In 1981, Janda played in the Academy Award winning movie Mephisto, in 1982, she played the lead character in Ryszard Bugajskis film Przesłuchanie, which first premiered 7 years later in 1989, following the collapse of communism. Despite the films release, she garnered international acclaim for her performance, including winning Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1993, she was a member of the jury at the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival, Janda is also known for her leading role in the second episode of Dekalog series of Krzysztof Kieślowski. Zbyszka Cybulskiego za najlepszy debiut Srebrny Asteroid za rolę w filmie Piotra Szulkina Golem, na XIX Międzynarodowym Festiwalu Filmów Fantastycznych w Trieście

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Krystyna Janda

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Pernilla August
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Pernilla August is a Swedish actress, director and screenwriter. She is best known for portraying Shmi Skywalker in Star Wars, Episode I – The Phantom Menace and Star Wars, August started acting during her childhood in theatre and at school. She studied acting at Swedish National Academy of Mime and Acting in Stockholm 1979–82, before finishing her studies, she attracted the attention of Ingmar Bergman, who cast her in his film Fanny and Alexander, playing the nanny in the directors romanticised portrait of his childhood. She also starred in Bo Widerbergs The Serpents Way as well as his TV-production of Henrik Ibsens The Wild Duck, at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, she has acted in several plays, starting 1981, several directed by Ingmar Bergman and touring internationally. She also worked with Russian director Jurij Ljubimov in Alexander Pushkins A Feast in the Time of Plague, in 1983-84, she worked at Folkteatern i Gävleborg with director Peter Oskarson in Anton Chekhovs Three Sisters. In 2008, she acted in the production of Steel Magnolias in Stockholm. Many in the English-speaking world know her best as Shmi Skywalker and she also appeared in The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. She shared the role as Virgin Mary in Mary, Mother of Jesus with Melinda Kinnaman and she played a bomber in the Swedish film Sprängaren. In 2011, she reprised her role as Shmi Skywalker in the season of Star Wars, The Clone Wars for the episode Overlords. After her directorial debut with the 2005 short film Time Bomb, she debuted as director and screenwriter in 2010 with Beyond, starring Noomi Rapace. In October 2011, August was asked to direct a new Danish drama series, Arvingerne, the series premiered on DR on 1 January 2014. Her two youngest daughters have cameos in the series, among many international awards and nominations, at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival she won the award for Best Actress, for her role in Bille Augusts The Best Intentions. For the same film she won the Best Actress award at the 28th Guldbagge Awards. In 2002 she was honored with the Royal Swedish medal Litteris et Artibus for her artistic work and she has been married twice and changed her name both times. Her first marriage was in 1982 to Klas Östergren, with whom she has one daughter, the second marriage was in 1991 to Bille August, with whom she has two daughters, in 1991, this marriage also ended in divorce, this time in 1997. Pernilla August at the Internet Movie Database Pernilla August at the TCM Movie Database Pernilla August at the Swedish Film Database Pernilla August at AllMovie

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Holly Hunter
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Holly Hunter is an American actress and producer. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Broadcast News, a seven-time Emmy Award nominee, Hunter won Emmys for Roe vs. Wade and The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. She also starred in the TNT drama series Saving Grace and her other film roles include Raising Arizona, Always, Copycat, Crash, O Brother, Where Art Thou. The Incredibles and Batman v Superman, Dawn of Justice, Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, the daughter of Opal Marguerite, a housewife, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a farmer and sporting-goods manufacturers representative. She eventually moved to New York City and roomed with fellow actress Frances McDormand, Hunter, in 2008, described living in The Bronx at the end of the D train, just off 205th Street, on Bainbridge Avenue and Hull Avenue. It was very Irish, and then you could go just a few blocks away and it was like the beginning of 1982. It was on 49th Street between Broadway and Eighth, on the south side of the street, Hunter recalled in an interview. We actually had a nice conversation and it was just the two of us. Hunter made her debut in the 1981 horror movie The Burning. After moving to Los Angeles in 1982, Hunter appeared in TV movies before being cast in a role in 1984s Swing Shift. Hunter went on to star in the comedy-drama Home for the Holidays and she also appeared in David Cronenbergs Crash and as a sardonic angel in A Life Less Ordinary. The following year, she played a recently divorced New Yorker in Richard LaGraveneses Living Out Loud, starring alongside Danny DeVito, Queen Latifah, and Martin Donovan. Hunter rounded out the 1990s with a role in the independent drama Jesus Son. Following a supporting role in the Coens O Brother, Where Art Thou, Hunter took top billing in the same years television movie Harlan County War, an account of labor struggles among Kentucky coal-mine workers. The following year found Hunter in the redemption drama Levity, also in 2003, Hunter had the role of a mother named Melanie Freeland, whose daughter is troubled and going through the perils of being a teenager in the film Thirteen. The film was critically acclaimed along with Hunter and her co-stars and earned her nominations for the Academy Award, in 2005, Hunter starred alongside Robin Williams in the black comedy-drama The Big White. Hunter became a producer, and helped develop a starring vehicle for herself with the TNT cable-network drama Saving Grace. For her acting, she received a Golden Globe Award nomination, on May 30,2008, Hunter received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Brenda Blethyn
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Blethyn has received two Academy Award nominations, two SAG Award nominations, two Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations, winning one. In addition, she has won a BAFTA, an Empire Award and has earned a Theatre World Award and both a Critics Circle Theatre Award and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for her theatrical work. Born into a working class home, Blethyn pursued a career until her early 30s before enrolling in the Guildford School of Acting after the dissolution of her marriage in 1973. She subsequently joined the Royal National Theatre and received credits for her performances in Troilus and Cressida, in 1981, Blethyn earned her first critical acclaim for Steaming. In 1980, Blethyn made her debut in Mike Leighs film Grown-Ups. After a modest number of guest spots in several productions, in the mid-1980s she garnered leading roles in the short-run sitcoms Chance in a Million and The Labours of Erica. In addition, Blethyn has appeared in productions including The Buddha of Suburbia, Anne Frank, The Whole Story, Belonging and War. Her most recent leading role in TV drama is the role in Vera. Born in Ramsgate, Kent, Blethyn was the youngest of the nine children in a Roman Catholic, working-class family. Her mother, Louisa Kathleen, was a housewife and former maid, Bottle had previously worked as a shepherd, and spent six years in British India with the Royal Field Artillery immediately prior to returning home to Broadstairs to become the familys chauffeur. Before WWII, he work as a mechanic at the Vauxhall car factory in Luton. The family lived in poor circumstances at their grandmothers home. It was, however, not until 1944, after an engagement of twenty years, by the time Blethyn was born in 1946, her three eldest siblings, Pam, Ted and Bernard, had already left home. Her parents were the first to introduce Blethyn to the cinema, Blethyn originally trained at technical college and worked as a stenographer and bookkeeper for a bank. At the end of a marriage, she opted to turn her hobby of amateur dramatics to her professional advantage, after studying at the Guildford School of Acting, she went onto the London stage in 1976, performing several seasons at the Royal National Theatre. After winning the London Critics Circle Theatre Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1980, Blethyn made her screen debut, directed by Mike Leigh, their first collaboration marked the start of a professional relationship which would later earn both of them huge acclaim. Blethyn followed this with roles in Shakespearean adaptations for the BBC, playing Cordelia in King Lear and Joan of Arc in Henry VI and she also appeared with Robert Bathurst and others in the popular BBC Radio 4 comedy series Dial M For Pizza. In the following years Blethyn expanded her status as a stage actress, appearing in productions including A Midsummers Night Dream, Dalliance, The Beaux Stratagem

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Hana Laszlo
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Hanna Laszlo is an Israeli actress and comedian. Hanna Laszlos parents were Holocaust survivors, in 1972–1973, she served in the Israel Defense Forces Southern Command musical troupe. She was married to Israeli media proprietor Aviv Giladi, with whom she has two sons - Ben and Itamar and her eldest, Ben Giladi, is a film producer that works for Len Blavatniks AI-Film and operates between London, LA and Tel-Aviv. Her daughter-in-law is Israeli Actress Romi Aboulafia, hanna also married and divorced businessman Benny Bloch. Laszlo rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s in the wake of comedy routines in which she portrayed such characters as Safta Zapta, in 2005 she won the Best Actress Award at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival for her role in Free Zone. In 2004, Laszlo hosted the Israeli version of the British television game show The Weakest Link, in 2010, Laszlo served as a judge with Claude Dadia and Eli Mizrachi in Rokdim Im Kokhavim, the Israeli version of Dancing with the Stars

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Hana Laszlo, 2004

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Carmen Maura
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Carmen García Maura is a Spanish actress. In a career that has spanned six decades, Maura is best known for her collaborations with noted Spanish film directors Pedro Almodóvar, Maura was born in Madrid to Salvador Garcia Santa-Cruz and Carmen Maura Arenzana. Her great-grandfather was the Count of Fuente Nueva de Arenzana, who lived in the Palace of Arenzana in Madrid, currently the embassy of France. Her other great grandfather from her mother´s side was the artist Bartolome Maura Montaner, brother of Antonio Maura, a prime minister of Spain on five occasions. Maura studied philosophy and literature at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, from 1964 to 1970, she was married to a lawyer, Francisco Forteza, with whom she has two children, Carmen and Pablo. Maura began her career as a cabaret singer, Mauras film career was launched in 1970 with an appearance in the film The Man in Hiding. This was followed by a role in the 1977 film Tigres de papel. Although Maura has played roles, she is often noted for her comedic roles in films like Sal gorda. Maura appeared in the first film by Pedro Almodóvar, Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, Maura and Almodóvar appeared to have had a falling out after Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. They did not work together for over a decade, but joined forces again in 2006 for Volver, Volver means Return in Spanish, and one of the many returns the title alludes to is Mauras return to Almodovars movies. The female cast of Volver won a prize for Best Actress at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. Maura also appeared in 800 Bullets where she played the mother of the boy who is the character of the story. Maura is cited as a gay icon for the role of a transsexual she played in Almodóvars Law of Desire, Maura has won more Goya Awards for Best Leading Actress than any other actress in the history of Spanish film. She won the Locarno Excellence Award in 2007 for all her cinematographic career, Maura has worked under the orders of major directors like Almodovar, Ford Coppola, Amos Gitai, Yasmina Reza, Alejandro Agresti, Carlos Saura, Étienne Chatiliez and Alex de la Iglesia. Mi blanca Varsovia Whats a Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This, menos mi madre y mi hermana 1980 Gary Cooper, que estás en los cielos. El hombre de moda Pepi, Luci, Bom 1982 - Femenino singular 1983 El Cid cabreador Dark Habits, with Marisa Paredes, Chus Lampreave and Julieta Serrano. 1984 What Have I Done to Deserve This, with Ángel de Andrés López, Kiti Manver and Chus Lampreave. Sal gorda 1985 Sé infiel y no mires con quién, with Ana Belén, Santiago Ramos, Antonio Resines, Verónica Forqué and Chus Lampreave

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Carmen Maura

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Blanca Portillo
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Blanca Portillo is a Spanish actress. Portillo started as an actress in several theater productions before graduating in drama from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico. One of her most important performances afterwards was her role of Carol in Oleanna by David Mamet and she made her film debut in Entre rojas. In 1996, Luis San Narciso cast her for the hit Telecinco TV series 7 vidas, the series lasted for ten years and ran for 204 episodes. Portillo played the role of Carlota, an insecure but brassy hairdresser who married Gonzalo, at the same Goyas, she won Best Supporting Actress for the play Eslavos, which focused on the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the century. She also participated in the Castilian dubbing of Finding Nemo, in spite of her success in TV and movies, she has never left theater and she has taken part in several plays both as an actress and as a director. In 2004, she left 7 vidas to undertake a project in Argentina named La hija del aire based on a book by Calderón de la Barca. She combined her work on this play with the film Elsa y Fred in which she plays a woman suspicious of the relationship between her father and his Argentinian neighbor. In the 2005 film Alatriste, based on a book by Arturo Pérez Reverte, she played a male role and she shaved her head for the role. The following year, Pedro Almodóvar cast her in his 2006 film Volver and she played Agustina, a friend of the central family who is terminally ill and looking for her missing mother. Here she played the lover of the owner of a billiard club, in 2009, she featured again in a film by Pedro Almodóvar, Broken Embraces playing the role of Judit. Her work in recent years has seen a return to Spanish television, including a role in Hospital Central and she had a small role in the 2010 Javier Bardem feature Biutiful and the 2011 film La Chispa de la Vida, starring alongside Salma Hayek. Actress La vida es sueño La avería Antígona Paseo romántico Medea Hamlet Barroco Mujeres soñaron caballos, Desorientados Como en las mejores familias. A Midsummer Nights Dream El matrimonio de Bostón Madre, el drama padre No hay burlas para el amor. que estás en los cielos Desorientados Shakespeare a pedazos Hay amores que hablan 7 vidas. 2006 Cannes Film Festival Best actress shared with Penélope Cruz, Chus Lampreave, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, goya Awards Candidatura al premio de Mejor Actriz Revelación. Unión de Actores Mejor actriz de teatro, Mejor actriz secundaria de teatro Candidata al Premio a la Mejor Actriz de Televisión. Mejor intérprete de teatro de reparto Fotogramas de Plata Candidata al premio de Mejor Actriz de Teatro

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Jeon Do-yeon
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Jeon Do-yeon is a South Korean actress. She has won awards in her career, including best actress at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for her portrayal of a broken woman who has lost everything in Lee Chang-dongs Secret Sunshine. Jeon Do-yeon spent five years starring in dramas before achieving instant star status with her film debut opposite Han Suk-kyu in The Contact. In 1999 and 2000 she received a Best Actress award from both the Blue Dragon Film Awards and the Grand Bell Awards for her role in The Harmonium in My Memory. In 2001 she skillfully played an ordinary bank teller in Park Heung-siks directorial debut I Wish I Had a Wife. After starring as the tough-talking Sunglasses in Ryoo Seung-wans No Blood No Tears, in 2003 she found box-office success in E J-yongs Untold Scandal, an adaptation of the famous French novel Dangerous Liaisons set in Joseon. The following year she reunited with Park Heung-sik in a role for the time-bending melodrama My Mother. In 2005 Jeon burst back into the playing a prostitute who contracts AIDS in Park Jin-pyos hard-hitting melodrama You Are My Sunshine. The performance helped turn the film into a hit. She then returned to television in Lovers in Prague which depicts the story between the presidents daughter and an ordinary detective, the drama averaged over 27 percent viewership ratings. But it was her role in Lee Chang-dongs Secret Sunshine in 2007 that would see her emerge in full glory, after making the charming, laidback road movie My Dear Enemy post-Cannes, Jeon gave birth to a daughter and rested for a while. In 2010, she re-established her status as Koreas premier A-list actress, in caper movie Countdown Jeon played a female con artist who risks her life for ten days for a final deal with a cold-hearted debt collector. Countdown premiered at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival and she then became a member of the main competition jury at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the first Korean actor or actress to have that honor. In 2015, Jeon starred in The Shameless, a thriller that explores the unexpected and she then played a blind swordswoman in the Goryeo-set revenge period drama Memories of the Sword, her third collaboration with Park Heung-sik. This was followed by Jeons second film with director Lee Yoon-ki, A Man, although not as broadly popular with audiences as some other stars in South Korea, Jeon is widely respected for her acting abilities, and many young actresses cite her as a role model. Jeon married businessman Kang Shi-kyu in a wedding ceremony at Shilla Hotel on March 11,2007. She gave birth to a daughter on January 22,2009

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Juliette Binoche
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Juliette Binoche is a French actress, artist and dancer. She has appeared in more than 60 feature films, been recipient of international awards. Coming from a background, she began taking acting lessons during adolescence. Her sensual performance in her English-language debut The Unbearable Lightness of Being, directed by Philip Kaufman, for her performance in Lasse Hallströms romantic comedy Chocolat, Binoche was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. During the 2000s she maintained a career, alternating between French and English language roles in both mainstream and art-house productions. In 2010, she won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Abbas Kiarostamis Certified Copy making her the first actress to win the European Best Actress Triple Crown. In 2008 she began a tour with a modern dance production in-i devised in collaboration with Akram Khan. Binoche was born in Paris, the daughter of Jean-Marie Binoche, a director, actor, and sculptor, and Monique Yvette Stalens, a teacher, director, and actress. Her father, who is French, also has one eighth Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry, juliettes mother was born in Częstochowa, Poland. Binoches maternal grandfather, Andre Stalens, was born in Poland, of Belgian and French descent, both of them were actors who were born in Częstochowa, the German Nazi occupiers imprisoned them at Auschwitz as intellectuals. When Binoches parents divorced in 1968, four-year-old Binoche and her sister Marion were sent to a boarding school. During their teens, the Binoche sisters spent their holidays with their maternal grandmother. Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had an effect on her. She was not particularly academic and in her years began acting at school in amateur stage-productions. At 17 she directed and starred in a student production of the Eugène Ionesco play and she studied acting at the Conservatoire National Supérieur dArt Dramatique, but quit after a short time as she disliked the curriculum. In the early 1980s, she found an agent through a friend and joined a troupe, touring France, Belgium. Around this time she began lessons with acting coach Vera Gregh, after this Binoche secured her first feature-film appearance with a minor role in Pascal Kanés Liberty Belle. Her role required just two days on–set, but was enough to inspire Binoche to pursue a career in film, Binoches early films established her as a French star of some renown

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Julianne Moore
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Julianne Moore is an American actress, prolific in films since the early 1990s. She is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent and Hollywood films, and has received many accolades, including the 2014 Academy Award for Best Actress. After studying theatre at Boston University, Moore began her career with a series of television roles, from 1985 to 1988, she was a regular in the soap opera As the World Turns, earning a Daytime Emmy for her performance. Her film debut was in Tales from the Darkside, The Movie, Moore first received critical attention with Robert Altmans Short Cuts, and successive performances in Vanya on 42nd Street and Safe continued this acclaim. Starring roles in the blockbusters Nine Months and The Lost World, Moore received considerable recognition in the late 1990s and early 2000s, earning Oscar nominations for Boogie Nights, The End of the Affair, Far from Heaven and The Hours. In the first of these she played a 1970s pornographic actress, in addition to acting, Moore has written a series of childrens books about a character named Freckleface Strawberry. She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children, Moore was born Julie Anne Smith on December 3,1960, at the Fort Bragg army installation in North Carolina. Her father, Peter Moore Smith, was a paratrooper in the United States Army during the Vietnam War and her mother, Anne, was a psychologist and social worker from Greenock, Scotland, who emigrated to the United States in 1951 with her family. Moore has a sister, Valerie, and a younger brother. She considers herself half Scottish and claimed British citizenship in 2011 to honor her deceased mother, Moore frequently moved around the United States as a child, due to her fathers occupation. She was close to her family as a result, but has said she never had the feeling of coming from one particular place. The family lived in locations, including Alabama, Georgia, Texas, Panama, Nebraska, Alaska, New York, and Virginia. The constant relocating made her a child, and she struggled to establish friendships. Despite these difficulties, Moore later remarked that an itinerant lifestyle was beneficial to her career, When you move around a lot. I would change, depending on where I was and it teaches you to watch, to reinvent, that character can change. When Moore was 16, the moved to Frankfurt, Germany. She was clever and studious, a good girl. She had never considered performing, or even attended the theatre and she appeared in several plays, including Tartuffe and Medea, and with the encouragement of her English teacher she chose to pursue a theatrical career

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Emmanuelle Bercot
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Emmanuelle Bercot is a French actress, film director and screenwriter. Her film Clément was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival and her 2013 film On My Way premiered in competition at the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. Her 2015 film Standing Tall was selected to open the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, at Cannes, Bercot won the award for Best Actress for her role in Mon roi. Chevalier of the Legion of Honour Emmanuelle Bercot at the Internet Movie Database

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Diane Kruger
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Diane Kruger is a German-American actress and former fashion model. She also starred as Detective Sonya Cross in the FX crime drama series The Bridge and she was brought up Roman Catholic and attended Catholic school. She has stated one of her grandmothers was Polish. She was brought up in Germany with her brother, Stefan. Her mother sent her to student exchange programmes when she was a teenager to improve her English, as a child, Kruger wanted to become a ballerina and successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet School in London. After an injury ended her career prematurely, Kruger moved to Paris. Kruger is fluent in German, English and French and she is a permanent resident of the United States and divides her time among Paris, Vancouver and Los Angeles. She is a friend of fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, in 1999, she dated the French actor and director Guillaume Canet. They were married on 1 September 2001 and they acted together in Joyeux Noël and divorced in 2006. Kruger said that the marriage was not successful because their careers had kept them in different parts of the world and she started dating actor Joshua Jackson in 2006. During an interview with magazine Glamour, she said, Without sounding pessimistic, I believe in a commitment that you make in your heart. Theres no paper that make you stay. A guy friend of mine said, and it made a lot of sense, Jackson has expanded on this point by saying in an interview that one of the reasons that they had not married is that neither were religious. They ended their relationship in 2016, in 1992, Kruger represented Germany in the Elite Model Look and started modelling afterwards. She gradually stopped modelling after deciding to pursue a career in acting, Kruger became interested in acting and took lessons at the Cours Florent. She made her debut in 2002, opposite Dennis Hopper and Christopher Lambert in The Piano Player. Her first major acting role was the year when she starred in her then husbands directorial début Mon Idole. She played Julie Wood in 2003s Michel Valliant and Lisa in Wicker Park, alongside Josh Hartnett, one of her more high-profile roles to date is her portrayal of Helen of Sparta in Wolfgang Petersens epic Troy

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Annie Girardot
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Annie Girardot was a three-time César Award winning French actress. She often played strong-willed, independent, hard-working, and often women, imbuing her characters with an earthiness. Over the course of a career, she starred in nearly 150 films. In 1955, she began her career, making her film debut in Treize à table. Her performance in Jean Cocteaus play La Machine à écrire in 1956 was admired by the author who called her The finest dramatic temperament of the Postwar period, in 1958, Luchino Visconti directed her opposite Jean Marais in a French stage adaptation of William Gibsons Two for the Seesaw. In 1962, she married Italian actor Renato Salvatori, in 1968, she also starred in the cult anti-consumerism French film Erotissimo. The film was nominated for a Golden Globe, and remains Girardots biggest box office hit in France and she Talks or Philippe de Brocas Dear Detective. In 1974, she starred in the hit teen movie, La Gifle, as Isabelle Adjanis mother. In 1972, she said in an interview to The New York Times, citing as Exhibit A her role as a freak in The Ape Woman. I believe that the acting of any role — from duchess to kitchen slavey — must be a form of transformation, in 1977, she won her first César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in the drama Docteur Françoise Gailland. Throughout the 1970s, she was the highest paid actress in France, indeed, between the release of Live for Life in 1967 and Jupiters Thigh in 1980,24 of her films have attracted more than one million admissions in France. In her 1989 autobiography, Vivre daimer, she wrote of her popularity that People didnt come to watch a beautiful, vamp-like creature, I played a judge, a lawyer, a taxi driver, a cop, a surgeon. I was never a glamorous star, the 1980s were less kind, as her career floundered and parts dwindled. In 1983, she lost a fortune when Revue Et Corrigée and she subsequently battled depression, but bounced back with several television series in France and Italy. However, Girardot had a comeback on the big screen playing a peasant wife in Claude Lelouchs Les Misérables. The role won her a second César Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1996, upon accepting the award, a joyous and tearful Girardot expressed her happiness that she had not been forgotten by the film industry in a speech that remained very famous. In 1992, she was the Head of the Jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival, in 2002, she was awarded the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Piano Teacher. She collaborated with director Michael Haneke again, in Caché, on stage she had a triumph in 1974 with Madame Marguerite, which became her signature role that she reprised on numerous occasions until 2002

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Nathalie Baye
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Nathalie Marie Andrée Baye is a French film, television and stage actress. She began her career in 1970 and has appeared in more than 80 films, a ten-time César Award nominee, her four wins were for Every Man for Himself, Strange Affair, La Balance, and The Young Lieutenant. In 2009, she was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and her other films include Day for Night, Catch Me If You Can, Tell No One and The Assistant. Baye was born in Mainneville, Eure, Normandy to Claude Baye and Denise Coustet, at 14 she joined a school of dance in Monaco. Three years later she went to the United States and her second cinema appearance was in Two People directed by Robert Wise. She became more known as the script girl in La Nuit américaine by François Truffaut. Throughout the 1970s she played the girlfriend or nice provincial girl in film. In 1981, she won her first César, for best supporting artist in Sauve qui peut by Jean-Luc Godard, there then followed Le Retour de Martin Guerre and La Balance. Her four-year relationship with Johnny Hallyday made them a celebrity couple, after changing her image by playing a streetwalker in La Balance, she widened her scope with more obscure characters in Jai épousé une ombre and En toute innocence. In 1986, she returned to the theatre with an interpretation of Adriana Monti, Nathalie Baye at the Internet Movie Database Nathalie Baye at AllMovie Nathalie Baye at AlloCiné

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Sandrine Bonnaire
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Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, film director and screenwriter, who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for À nos amours, the César Award for Best Actress for Vagabond and her other films include Under the Sun of Satan, Monsieur Hire, East/West and The Final Lesson. Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region and she was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983 and she played a girl from Paris beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984, she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress and her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the main character in Sans toit ni loi, directed by Agnès Varda, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally, the film Monsieur Hire directed by Patrice Leconte followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon and Claude Sautet. In 1995, she starred as a simple maid in Claude Chabrols widely acclaimed thriller La Cérémonie. The film and its stars won awards internationally, including for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival for both Bonnaire and co-star Isabelle Huppert, in 2004, she starred in another Patrice Lecontes film, Intimate Strangers, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States. Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt and they acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger. Since March 2003 she has married to actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has had a second daughter

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Anne Parillaud
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Anne Parillaud is a French actress, who has appeared in 30 films since 1977. She is best known internationally for her role as Nikita in the film Nikita, Parillaud was born in Paris, France. She met director Luc Besson and married him in 1986, Nikita was an especially intense experience for Parillaud, For a while she was in me like a demon. I would do things I normally would not do and she was awkward, depressed, full of despair. But to me there was also a spiritual underline to Nikita, in a very excessive way she is a loudspeaker of the youth of society today. She destroys herself because she doesnt believe in anything on Earth, in preparation for the role, she underwent three months of judo lessons and target practice to hone her skills as a government assassin, I hate guns, I hate violence, I hate judo. Her early ballet training also came in handy for one amusing scene though she modestly downplays her physical gifts, saying only, I just forget about the bones. Despite the glamour and danger of her character, Parillaud cautions, It never happens to me, after the international success of Nikita, Parillaud left France to star in three films abroad, Map of the Human Heart, Innocent Blood, and Frankie Starlight. For me, it was a parable to talk about how you deal with this problem and you think or you live or you want something different from everyone else. People dont follow you, because its scary and you are quite alone in your choices. In 2010 she starred in the French psychological thriller In Their Sleep which was directed by Caroline du Potet, parillauds first husband was Luc Besson, with whom she has a daughter. In 2005 she married Jean Michel Jarre, biographical information compiled from GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Movies USA, Lofficiel, and Roadshow. Archived from the original on 25 October 2009, Anne Parillaud at the Internet Movie Database Anne Parillaud at AllMovie Anne Parillaud at AlloCiné

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Karin Viard
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Karin Viard is a multi-award-winning French actress. She made her debut in Tatie Danielle in 1990. Viard is one of the most critically acclaimed French actresses of the past decade, since then she has appeared in films such as Delicatessen, LEmploi du temps, Adultère, mode demploi and La parenthèse enchantée. She was a member of the 2003 Cannes Film Festival jury and she was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. Viard has won two César Awards, the first for Best Actress for her role in Haut les cœurs. and the second for Best Supporting Actress for Embrassez qui vous voudrez. She was nominated for the César Awards three other times, Viard has also won the Best Actress award at the Montréal World Film Festival for her performance in Le Rôle de sa vie. Karin Viard at the Internet Movie Database Karin Viard at allcine. com

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Dominique Blanc
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Dominique Blanc is a French actress. She was trained at the French Drama school, Cours Florent, in 1980, at the suggestion of Pierre Romans in whose class she was, Patrice Chéreau went to see her and engaged her for a performance of Henrik Ibsens Peer Gynt. She remains one of Chéreaus preferred actresses, one of the most critically acclaimed French actresses, Blanc has won four César Awards. On 6 September 2008, she won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 65th Venice Film Festival, commander of the Order of Arts and Letters Dominique Blanc at the Internet Movie Database

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Emmanuelle Devos
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Emmanuelle Devos is a French actress. She is the daughter of actress Marie Henriau and she won the César Award for Best Actress in 2002 for her performance in Sur mes lèvres, directed by Jacques Audiard. She has also been nominated three times for the award. She was a member of the Jury for the Main Competition section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, Emmanuelle Devos at the Internet Movie Database Emmanuelle Devos - uniFrance Emmanuelle Devos at AlloCiné

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Emmanuelle Devos in 2013

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Yolande Moreau
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Yolande Moreau is a Belgian comedian, actress, film director and screenwriter. She has won three César Awards from four nominations, Moreau is prize-winner of three César Awards, one for best first film and two as best actress. She has more of the awards than any other Belgian actress and she made her debut in cinema with the director Agnès Varda with two movies, Sept pièces and Vagabond. In 1989 she joined Jérôme Deschamps and Macha Makeieffs troupe, of which she one of the stars, especially with the TV programme. She make her debut with the movie When the Sea Rises, in which she also starred. The movie is really loved by the critics and Yolande Moreau won two César Awards for Best Debut and Best Actress, Moreau stars in the French horror thriller film The Pack, which premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. Her 2013 film Henri was screened in the Directors Fortnight section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, movies starring Yolande Moreau with more than a million of entries in France. Yolande Moreau at the Internet Movie Database Yolande Moreau at AlloCiné

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Moreau in 2009
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Yolande Moreau

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Marina Hands
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Marina Hands is a French stage and film actress. Hands is the daughter of British director Terry Hands and French actress Ludmila Mikaël, and she studied acting at the Cours Florent and the CNSAD in France, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in England. In 1999, she made her debut in Le Bel Air de Londres by Dion Boucicault. Her first film was Andrzej Żuławskis La Fidélité, followed by The Barbarian Invasions and she then appeared in Les Âmes grises, for which she was nominated for the César Award for Most Promising Actress, and Ne le dis à personne. Her most notable performance to date was in the role of Lady Chatterley. Hands won the 2007 César Award for Best Actress for her performance, in 2006, Hands became a company member of the Comédie-Française. In 2008, she was nominated for a Molière Award for her play in Partage de midi. In 2011, she starred in Claude Millers film Voyez comme ils dansent, Marina Hands at the Internet Movie Database Marina Hands at AllMovie Marina Hands at AlloCiné

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Marion Cotillard
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Marion Cotillard is a French actress, singer-songwriter, musician, environmentalist and spokesperson for Greenpeace who achieved international fame with the film La Vie en Rose. She is the recipient of an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, Cotillard has appeared in more than 50 feature films and is also known for being the face of Lady Dior handbags since 2008. She became a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in France in 2010 and she received Frances highest honor and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2016. She made her Hollywood debut as Joséphine Bloom in Tim Burtons Big Fish and her performance of Luisa Contini in the musical Nine, earned her a second Golden Globe nomination. She next starred in Michael Manns Public Enemies as Billie Frechette, Cotillard became one of only six actors to receive multiple Academy Award nominations for foreign-language performances. Cotillard played Joan of Arc on stage in different countries between 2005 and 2015 in the oratorio Jeanne dArc au bûcher. She provided voice acting for animated films as The Rose in The Little Prince, April in April and the Extraordinary World and Scarlet Overkill in the French version of Minions. Her other notable French and Belgian films include La Belle Verte, Furia, War in the Highlands, Lisa, Pretty Things, Love Me If You Dare, Innocence, Toi et Moi and Dikkenek. Cotillard was born in Paris, and grew up around Orléans, in an inclined, bustling. Her father, Jean-Claude Cotillard, is an actor, teacher, former mime, Cotillards mother, Niseema Theillaud, who has Kabyle ancestry, is also an actress and drama teacher. Her two younger brothers Quentin and Guillaume are twins, Guillaume is a screenwriter and director. Cotillard began acting during her childhood, appearing in one of her fathers plays, or How I Got into an Argument, and the comedy La Belle Verte, directed by Coline Serreau. In 1998, she appeared in Gérard Pirès action comedy Taxi, playing Lilly Bertineau, the film was a hit in France and she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress. Cotillard reprised the role in two sequels, Taxi 2 and Taxi 3 and she then ventured into science fiction with Alexandre Ajas post-apocalyptic romantic drama, Furia in 1999. That same year, Cotillard starred in the Swiss war drama film War in the Highlands, in 2001, she appeared in Pierre Grimblats film Lisa, playing the title role and younger version of Jeanne Moreaus character, co-starring with Benoît Magimel and Sagamore Stévenin. In the same year, she starred in Gilles Paquet-Brenners film Pretty Things, in the drama, Cotillard portrayed twins of completely opposite characters, Lucie and Marie, and she was nominated for a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performances. In 2002, Cotillard starred in Guillaume Niclouxs thriller A Private Affair, in 2003, Cotillard had a notable supporting role in Tim Burtons film Big Fish. In the same year, she starred in the French romantic comedy film Love Me If You Dare, as Sophie Kowalsky, the film was directed by Yann Samuel and was a box office hit in France

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Sara Forestier
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Sara Forestier is a French actress and director. Forestier began her career in 2001. She received a César Award for Most Promising Actress for her performance in Games of Love and she won the César Award for Best Actress in 2011 for her performance in Le Nom des gens

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Emmanuelle Riva
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Emmanuelle Riva was a French actress, best known for her roles in the films Hiroshima mon amour and Amour. Riva won the BAFTA Award and the César Award for her role in Michael Hanekes Amour as Anne Laurent. She had previously nominated for a BAFTA Award for Hiroshima mon amour. Riva was born Paulette Germaine Riva on 24 February 1927 in Cheniménil, France, the daughter of Jeanne, a seamstress, and Alfredo Riva, a sign painter from Italy. Growing up in Remiremont, Riva showed a passion for acting, performing in plays at her local theatre. After seeing an advertisement on a newspaper, Riva applied to an acting school in Paris. At the age of 26, she moved to the French capital to pursue a career in acting despite objections from her family, in 1954, she performed her first role on stage in a Paris production of George Bernard Shaws Arms and the Man. In 1957, Riva made her acting debut in the TV series Énigmes de lhistoire. Her performance gained a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Actress in 1960, Riva also appeared in Krzysztof Kieślowskis Three Colors, Blue, Tonie Marshalls Venus Beauty Institute and Julie Delpys Skylab. Riva starred in the well received Michael Haneke film Amour with Jean-Louis Trintignant and she won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2013 for her performance, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Riva travelled to the 85th Academy Awards ceremony, which was held on her 86th birthday, Riva had an extensive theatre career in Paris. In 2001, she performed in Medea at the Festival dAvignon and she appeared occasionally on French television. Riva returned to the Paris stage in February 2014, co-starring with Anne Consigny in the Marguerite Duras play Savannah Bay at the Théâtre de lAtelier. While filming Hiroshima mon amour, Riva photographed Hiroshima, a half-century later these photographs were exhibited at the Nikon Salon and were issued in form in France. Riva led a life, never married and had no children. She had a partner, who died in 1999, Riva owned a fourth-floor walk-up apartment in the Latin Quarter of Paris, and had lived there for more than half a century. Riva died from cancer on 27 January 2017 in Paris at the age of 89, a memorial service was held for Riva on 4 February 2017 at Saint-Germain de Charonne church in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, she was then buried in Charonne cemetery. Juste derrière le sifflet des trains, tu nas rien vu à Hiroshima

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Sandrine Kiberlain
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Sandrine Kiberlain is a French actress and singer. She has often worked with the director Laetitia Masson, and has worked with Benoît Jacquot. Kiberlain attended Cours Florent 1987-1989 and French National Academy of Dramatic Arts 1989-1992, Kiberlain received the Prix Romy Schneider in 1995. In addition to her career, she also has recorded an album. Her second album Coupés bien net et bien carré was released in October 2007, in 1993, she met Vincent Lindon on movie sets and they married in 1998. In 2000, the couple had a daughter, Suzanne and they separated after ten years together. The March 5,2015, she appeared on the cover of Paris-Match, Kiberlain is a member of the Les Enfoirés charity ensemble since 1997. Manquait plus quça Coupés bien net et bien carré La Chanteuse Vole Sandrine Kiberlain at the Internet Movie Database

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Kristin Scott Thomas
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Dame Kristin Ann Scott Thomas, DBE is an English actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress BAFTA Award for Four Weddings, for her work in the theatre, she has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Best Actress five times, winning in 2008 for the Royal Court revival of The Seagull. Scott Thomas made her debut in the Prince-directed Under the Cherry Moon in 1986, Further film roles include Bitter Moon, Mission, Impossible, The Horse Whisperer, Gosford Park. She has also worked in French cinema, winning the European Film Award for Best Actress for Philippe Claudels Ive Loved You So Long and her other French films include The Valet, Tell No One, Leaving and Sarahs Key. Scott Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, Scott Thomas was brought up as a Roman Catholic. Her childhood home was in Trent, Dorset, England and her mother remarried, to another Royal Navy pilot, who also died in a flying accident, six years after the death of her father. Scott Thomas was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and St Antonys Leweston in Sherborne, Dorset, on leaving school she moved to Hampstead, London, and worked in a department store. She then began training to be a teacher at the Central School of Speech. On being told she would never be a good enough actress and her breakthrough role was in a 1988 adaptation of Evelyn Waughs A Handful of Dust, where she won an Evening Standard British Film Award for most promising newcomer. This was followed by roles opposite Hugh Grant in Bitter Moon and Four Weddings,1996 saw the release of her most famous role as Katharine Clifton in The English Patient, which gained her Golden Globe and Oscar nominations as well as critical acclaim. This was followed by a period working in Hollywood on films such as The Horse Whisperer with Robert Redford. However, growing disillusioned with Hollywood, she took a year off to give birth to her third child and she reprised the role in New York in September 2008. In summer 2011 Scott Thomas returned to Londons West End to star as Emma in Harold Pinters Betrayal at the Comedy Theatre, the revival was directed by Ian Rickson. Her husband was played by Ben Miles and the triangle was completed by Douglas Henshall. In January 2013, she starred in another Pinter play, Old Times, in 2014 she appeared at The Old Vic in the title role of Sophocless Electra. Scott Thomas also has acted in French films, in 2006, she played the role of Hélène, in French, in Ne le dis à personne, by French director Guillaume Canet. In 2008, Scott Thomas received many accolades for her performance in Il y a longtemps que je taime, including BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2003 Birthday Honours and she was named a Chevalier of the Légion dhonneur by the French Government in 2005

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Virtual International Authority File
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The Virtual International Authority File is an international authority file. It is a joint project of national libraries and operated by the Online Computer Library Center. The project was initiated by the US Library of Congress, the German National Library, the National Library of France joined the project on October 5,2007. The project transitions to a service of the OCLC on April 4,2012, the aim is to link the national authority files to a single virtual authority file. In this file, identical records from the different data sets are linked together, a VIAF record receives a standard data number, contains the primary see and see also records from the original records, and refers to the original authority records. The data are available online and are available for research and data exchange. Reciprocal updating uses the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting protocol, the file numbers are also being added to Wikipedia biographical articles and are incorporated into Wikidata. VIAFs clustering algorithm is run every month, as more data are added from participating libraries, clusters of authority records may coalesce or split, leading to some fluctuation in the VIAF identifier of certain authority records

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Integrated Authority File
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The Integrated Authority File or GND is an international authority file for the organisation of personal names, subject headings and corporate bodies from catalogues. It is used mainly for documentation in libraries and increasingly also by archives, the GND is managed by the German National Library in cooperation with various regional library networks in German-speaking Europe and other partners. The GND falls under the Creative Commons Zero license, the GND specification provides a hierarchy of high-level entities and sub-classes, useful in library classification, and an approach to unambiguous identification of single elements. It also comprises an ontology intended for knowledge representation in the semantic web, available in the RDF format

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National Library of the Czech Republic
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The National Library of the Czech Republic is the central library of the Czech Republic. It is directed by the Ministry of Culture, the librarys main building is located in the historical Clementinum building in Prague, where approximately half of its books are kept. The other half of the collection is stored in the district of Hostivař, the National Library is the biggest library in the Czech Republic, in its funds there are around 6 million documents. The library has around 60,000 registered readers, as well as Czech texts, the library also stores older material from Turkey, Iran and India. The library also houses books for Charles University in Prague, the library won international recognition in 2005 as it received the inaugural Jikji Prize from UNESCO via the Memory of the World Programme for its efforts in digitising old texts. The project, which commenced in 1992, involved the digitisation of 1,700 documents in its first 13 years, the most precious medieval manuscripts preserved in the National Library are the Codex Vyssegradensis and the Passional of Abbes Kunigunde. In 2006 the Czech parliament approved funding for the construction of a new building on Letna plain. In March 2007, following a request for tender, Czech architect Jan Kaplický was selected by a jury to undertake the project, later in 2007 the project was delayed following objections regarding its proposed location from government officials including Prague Mayor Pavel Bém and President Václav Klaus. Later in 2008, Minister of Culture Václav Jehlička announced the end of the project, the library was affected by the 2002 European floods, with some documents moved to upper levels to avoid the excess water. Over 4,000 books were removed from the library in July 2011 following flooding in parts of the main building, there was a fire at the library in December 2012, but nobody was injured in the event. List of national and state libraries Official website

National Library of the Czech Republic
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Baroque library hall in the National Library of the Czech Republic
National Library of the Czech Republic
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General reading room (former refectory of the Jesuit residence in Clementinum)